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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. The boy regrets giving a photograph of which character to the man as a present?
2. What color is the book entitled Elegies for Lost Children?
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 piece of information does the woman ask the boy to recite upon demand?
5. To whom does the banker's box belong that the boy retrieves from the trunk of the family car one night?
Short Essay Questions
1. What bright spot does the boy say will remain in the situation even if the man and woman never find the two of them?
2. 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)?
3. What is the woman's philosophy about answering the questions of the boy and girl?
4. How does the fictional author of Elegies for Lost Children demonstrate the way in which the "man in charge" (164) despises being asked questions?
5. What clues does the boy leave for the man and woman in regard to his and the girl's plans?
6. 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?
7. What question does the boy nervously ask the woman during a discussion about the novel Lord of the Flies?
8. 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.
9. In what habit does the girl often engage and what does she call her habit?
10. What example does the boy give when he claims that the girl is "sometimes really smart" (196)?
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 are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the novel Lost Children Archive and how does their treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 3
Write a critical essay about Lost Children Archive while using the critical power theory lens of Marxist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the novel's treatment of issues such as socioeconomic status, hierarchies, wealth, class, or any other issues related to Marxist theory that can be found in the novel.
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