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

2. In the seventh elegy of the book Elegies of Lost Children, the group of children are told that they must wait how many days before the next train comes?
(a) 5-7.
(b) 2-4.
(c) 9-10.
(d) 1-2.

3. What object does the boy throw off the cliff as part of his plan to break the silence cast upon the meal by the man and the woman?
(a) A shoe.
(b) A hat.
(c) A popsicle.
(d) A branch.

4. The woman recalls that she had been how old when her mother had left the family to "join a guerilla movement" (172)?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

5. What piece of information does the woman ask the boy to recite upon demand?
(a) The family's address in New York City.
(b) The girl's blood type.
(c) His social security number.
(d) The phone numbers of the man and the woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the boy and girl part company with the rancher riding a tractor, they immediately run to take what action?

2. The coyote in Elegies for Lost Children begins with how many children under his supervision on their way to the United States?

3. What is NOT one of the water tanks the boy plans to pass along his planned route to a particular canyon?

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

5. How many boys are under the supervision of the coyote at the start of the journey in Elegies for Lost Children?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What sight in the backseat causes the woman to relent and to grant the boy's request to play "Space Oddity" again after the "fifth or sixth time" (156)?

4. 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?

5. What bright spot does the boy say will remain in the situation even if the man and woman never find the two of them?

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

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

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