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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. When the boy sneaks out of his and the girl's bedroom one night, it is because he wants to read more of which book?

2. What is NOT something to which the woman has been accustomed within the confines of the car during the road trip?

3. In a conversation with the boy, the woman claims that which book is "about human nature" (161)?

4. At what kind of establishment has the family stopped when they hear about the imminent deportation of children?

5. What two items does the boy retrieve from the glove compartment of the family car on the night he sneaks out to get a book?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. What is the woman's philosophy about answering the questions of the boy and girl?

5. What major change in narration takes place at the start of the part called Reenactment?

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

8. In what way does the motif of music enter the part of the narrative when the boy and girl enter a diner to get some water?

9. 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)?

10. What bright spot does the boy say will remain in the situation even if the man and woman never find the two of them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How is the motif of sound included within Lost Children Archive and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?

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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