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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the boy and girl encounter a man on a tractor while they are lost, the boy recognizes the man's name from what document?
(a) A map.
(b) A birth certificate.
(c) A court summons.
(d) A gravestone.

2. How many children at the train yard dedicate their time to caring for the refugee children's damaged feet?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

3. Once the narrative perspective shifts away from the woman, to whom does the narrative voice transfer?
(a) The girl.
(b) The man.
(c) Manuela.
(d) The boy.

4. The boy regrets giving a photograph of which character to the man as a present?
(a) The boy.
(b) The man.
(c) The woman.
(d) The girl.

5. After the boy and girl part company with the rancher riding a tractor, they immediately run to take what action?
(a) To take a drink of water.
(b) To write a journal entry.
(c) To retrieve their hidden food.
(d) To take inventory of their backpacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the boy says that when he is older his hobby will be to "document things," (233) he says that he will be a what?

2. What is the woman's answer when the boy asks her what she had liked to do at age ten?

3. To whom does the banker's box belong that the boy retrieves from the trunk of the family car one night?

4. What is NOT something to which the woman has been accustomed within the confines of the car during the road trip?

5. The girl tells the boy that if they ever got lost together in the forest "with a dog only" (218) she would stand next to the boy for what purpose?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the boy plan to find the way to the town of Lordsburg and what does he plan to do once he and the girl reach Lordsburg?

2. What does the airplane symbolize within the Virginia Woolf epigraph at the start of Family Soundscapes: "Box IV"?

3. What event causes the boy to become unhappy for the first time since he and the girl had set out on their journey together?

4. What clues does the boy leave for the man and woman in regard to his and the girl's plans?

5. How does the boy answer the woman's queries about the procedures he would follow if he and the girl ever became lost? What is the woman's reaction to the boy's answer?

6. What major change in narration takes place at the start of the part called Reenactment?

7. What example does the boy give when he claims that the girl is "sometimes really smart" (196)?

8. What commonalities does the boy find between the careers of the man and the woman?

9. For what length of time has the family been driving when the boy asks the woman to play a David Bowie song in the car?

10. What question does the boy nervously ask the woman during a discussion about the novel Lord of the Flies?

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