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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. The note the boy leaves inside one of the banker's boxes says that he and the girl are going to look for the "lost" (238) what?
(a) Boys.
(b) Women.
(c) Children.
(d) Girls.

2. When the woman agrees to read to the boy from Elegies for Lost Children, how many chapters does she agree to read aloud?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

3. 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 gravestone.
(c) A birth certificate.
(d) A court summons.

4. 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) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

5. Which member of the family is named as having "arranged all the chaos around" the family "into a world" (184)?
(a) The woman.
(b) The girl.
(c) The man.
(d) The boy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Once the narrative perspective shifts away from the woman, to whom does the narrative voice transfer?

3. What piece of information does the woman ask the boy to recite upon demand?

4. The boy and girl slowly make their way out of the diner while singing what David Bowie song that is also playing on the jukebox?

5. At what airport does the family watch a group of children being put onto a plane that will enact their deportation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event causes the woman to question the boy about what he would do if he and the girl ever got lost while on their own?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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