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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. Which member of the family at the narrative's center identifies as a "documentarian" (98)?
2. The woman's story about her parents traveling to India revolves around what object?
3. The woman recalls that when she had been three months' pregnant with the girl, she had visited which of her family members in Chicago?
4. The woman states that in the past "six or seven months" (18) over how many undocumented children from Mexico and the Northern Triangle had been detained at the southern U.S. border?
5. When a flirtatious encounter results in the woman's possession of a man's phone number, where does she keep it during the rest of the trip?
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. What quality does the woman say is difficult to maintain within a marriage in a "real and sustained" (82) manner?
3. 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?
4. Describe an instance when the girl's vivacious personality influences the rest of the family's behavior.
5. How does the man reply when the boy asks him why he has chosen the Apache tribe as the subject of his newest project?
6. How does the woman define documentation for the boy?
7. How is the road trip from New York to Arizona a symbol of the family's imminent separation?
8. For what purpose does the family at the center of the narrative bring bankers' boxes along on their road trip?
9. What do the boy and girl call child refugees and what is the woman's reaction to their choice?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the function of the coyote's character within the text-within-a-text called Elegies for Lost Children? Discuss the characterization methods used by Luiselli in depicting the coyote who is paid to see that the children arrive safely in the United States. Include in your discussion the reasons that Luiselli portrays the coyote in these particular ways.
Essay Topic 2
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Luiselli’s novel Lost Children Archive. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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