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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 term does the boy use to describe the things he had "invented and perfected way before" (204) the family's road trip?
(a) Arrow-maps.
(b) Nap-clouds.
(c) Hand-traps.
(d) Finger-maps.

2. 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 sit down.
(c) They clap.
(d) They dance.

3. Once the family has decided to travel toward the airport near Roswell, for how many weeks have they been driving?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

4. Which object that the boy puts into his backpack as he prepares for the trek into the desert does not belong to the woman?
(a) The large map.
(b) The book called The Elegies of Lost Children.
(c) The pair of binoculars.
(d) The sound recorder.

5. 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?
(a) Space Oddity.
(b) Golden Years.
(c) Ziggy Stardust.
(d) Changes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The boy regrets giving a photograph of which character to the man as a present?

3. In what part of Mexico had the woman's mother joined a guerilla movement after leaving her family?

4. 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?

5. As stated in the eighth elegy, the presence of what creature is the only thing that makes the girls in Elegies for Lost Children feel safe as they are crouched between train cars relieving themselves?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. What is the woman's philosophy about answering the questions of the boy and girl?

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

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