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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What gift does the woman give to the boy on his birthday?
2. The child refugee's interview on the radio reveals that La Bestia is what type of object?
3. The man tells the woman one day that his new project will call for him to relocate "more permanently" (20) to what part of the United States?
4. Toward what state does the family set out at the start of the narrative?
5. Whose tomb does the family visit just outside of Lawton?
Short Essay Questions
1. What sort of text is included within the man's Box III that is not included within the woman's box?
2. How is the road trip from New York to Arizona a symbol of the family's imminent separation?
3. While the woman does not keep a journal, she uses what other method that she believes serves the same purpose?
4. What do the boy and girl call child refugees and what is the woman's reaction to their choice?
5. What "superstitious impulse" (68) is the woman always unable to resist?
6. What does the reader learn about La Bestia when the family listens to a radio interview with a child refugee?
7. What prompts the woman to begin to record the man's Apache stories as he tells them?
8. While the man wants the road trip to end in Arizona, the woman wants to visit what state so that she can pursue her own next project?
9. Describe the circumstances that led to the formation of the family at the center of Lost Children Archive.
10. How does the woman react to hearing the radio interview with the boy being held in a Texas detention center?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the theme of the motherhood archetype within Lost Children Archive. What is Luiselli’s message regarding the role of motherhood and how do you know?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Luiselli’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of Lost Children Archive.
Essay Topic 3
Determine Luiselli’s message within the novel Lost Children Archive regarding the idea that the American media directly influences its citizens' thinking about the topic of immigration in manipulative and harmful ways.
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