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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 color is the book entitled Elegies for Lost Children?
2. In the seventh elegy of the book Elegies of Lost Children, the group of children are told that they must wait how many days before the next train comes?
3. The coyote in Elegies for Lost Children begins with how many children under his supervision on their way to the United States?
4. The woman recalls that she had been how old when her mother had left the family to "join a guerilla movement" (172)?
5. In the eighth elegy of the book Elegies for Lost Children, it is revealed that the boys in the group are allowed to relieve themselves a maximum of how many times per day while riding atop the train?
Short Essay Questions
1. What clues does the boy leave for the man and woman in regard to his and the girl's plans?
2. What items does the boy pack in preparation for the trek into the desert and eventually to Echo Canyon?
3. 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?
4. What does the airplane symbolize within the Virginia Woolf epigraph at the start of Family Soundscapes: "Box IV"?
5. What is the woman's philosophy about answering the questions of the boy and girl?
6. What kind of animal does the boy wish for once he realizes that he and the girl are lost and why?
7. Who is the rancher encountered by the boy and girl on their journey and why is the boy happy when he discovers the rancher's name?
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 question does the boy nervously ask the woman during a discussion about the novel Lord of the Flies?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the theme of deception function within Lost Children Archive and what is Luiselli’s message regarding this theme?
Essay Topic 2
What messages does Luiselli send about family bonds and what themes are employed in order to send these messages to the reader?
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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