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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. What color is the book entitled Elegies for Lost Children?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

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

3. On what type of document does the boy draw the route he and the girl plan to take as they set out in search of lost people?
(a) A newspaper clipping.
(b) A court summons.
(c) A map.
(d) A parking ticket.

4. 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) 2-4.
(b) 5-7.
(c) 9-10.
(d) 1-2.

5. When the plane has been loaded with children and begins to move, what action do the immigration officers take that angers the woman?
(a) They wave goodbye.
(b) They dance.
(c) They clap.
(d) They sit down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of body of water is contained in the part of Elegies for Lost Children that the woman reads to the boy?

2. When the boy describes eating "a real breakfast in a diner" (218) the reader is meant to recognize which location that was also described earlier in the narrative by the woman?

3. What two items does the boy retrieve from the glove compartment of the family car on the night he sneaks out to get a book?

4. When the woman wants to know what the boy would do if he and the girl became lost, he answers that he would look for the man and the woman in what location?

5. The boy recalls the man having once told a story about a little girl in Siberia whose life had been saved against all odds by what kind of animal?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is the rancher encountered by the boy and girl on their journey and why is the boy happy when he discovers the rancher's name?

4. What does the reader learn by the end of Part I about the woman's own childhood?

5. Which section of the fifth elegy causes the woman to stop reading to the boy?

6. 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?

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

8. What kind of animal does the boy wish for once he realizes that he and the girl are lost and why?

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

10. What items does the boy pack in preparation for the trek into the desert and eventually to Echo Canyon?

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