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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. In what way does the boy document his and the girl's encounter with the rancher on the tractor?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. What term does the boy use to describe the things he had "invented and perfected way before" (204) the family's road trip?
5. What is the only object the boy packs inside of the girl's backpack before he takes her on a trek into the desert?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what habit does the girl often engage and what does she call her habit?
2. 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?
3. How does the fictional author of Elegies for Lost Children demonstrate the way in which the "man in charge" (164) despises being asked questions?
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. What example does the boy give when he claims that the girl is "sometimes really smart" (196)?
6. 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?
7. What clues does the boy leave for the man and woman in regard to his and the girl's plans?
8. What does the airplane symbolize within the Virginia Woolf epigraph at the start of Family Soundscapes: "Box IV"?
9. What is the woman's philosophy about answering the questions of the boy and girl?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of Lost Children Archive and analyze Luiselli’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.
Essay Topic 2
How does the theme of deception function within Lost Children Archive and what is Luiselli’s message regarding this theme?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Luiselli’s messages about guilt and responsibility within Lost Children Archive. Focus especially on events such as the boy’s decision to take the girl on a journey into the desert without their parents’ knowledge.
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