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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. 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?
(a) One of the boys in their group.
(b) An eagle.
(c) The man in charge.
(d) The conductor.

2. What is the woman's answer when the boy asks her what she had liked to do at age ten?
(a) Playing hopscotch.
(b) Exploring abandoned houses.
(c) Kissing boys.
(d) Climbing trees.

3. 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) Golden Years.
(b) Space Oddity.
(c) Ziggy Stardust.
(d) Changes.

4. The note the boy leaves inside one of the banker's boxes states that he and the girl will meet the man and woman in what location?
(a) Buffalo Canyon.
(b) Echo Canyon.
(c) Laurel Canyon.
(d) Steed Canyon.

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

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. Along what sort of pathway do the boy and the girl walk as they gradually begin to realize that they are lost?

3. The woman claims that fear "in the daytime, under the sun" (157) belongs to whom?

4. With what Roman numeral is the box marked that the boy retrieves from the trunk of the family car one night?

5. How many children does the cashier say will be deported from an airport near Roswell the following day?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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)?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. Discuss how the boy's reunion with the girl comes about after their separation and include discussion of the boy's reaction to their reunion.

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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