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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. Manuela reports to the woman that her two daughters have disappeared somewhere between two detention centers in what states?
2. Whose tomb does the family visit just outside of Lawton?
3. The woman remarks that whenever the family listens to the radio during their road trip, she tries to find news about "the situation" (39) at what location?
4. The man and the woman had first met while working on a project involving which of the five senses?
5. What emotion does the woman say that the boy "normally represses" (37)?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What sort of text is included within the man's Box III that is not included within the woman's box?
3. In what way does Luiselli use the traditional notion of the American Dream to comment on the reasons refugees from the Northern Triangle leave their homes?
4. How is the road trip from New York to Arizona a symbol of the family's imminent separation?
5. While the woman does not keep a journal, she uses what other method that she believes serves the same purpose?
6. For what purpose does the family at the center of the narrative bring bankers' boxes along on their road trip?
7. How does the woman react to hearing the radio interview with the boy being held in a Texas detention center?
8. What prompts the woman to begin to record the man's Apache stories as he tells them?
9. What object does the woman collect during the trip and keep inside her boot for the remainder of the trip and why?
10. Describe the differences between the man's sound work and the woman's sound work.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the theme of courage within Lost Children Archive. What is Luiselli’s message regarding courage and how do you know?
Essay Topic 2
Sensory details are used frequently by Luiselli in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of Lost Children Archive. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Luiselli’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Luiselli’s novel Lost Children Archive. What message is Luiselli sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
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