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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. How many girls are under the supervision of the coyote at the start of the journey in Elegies for Lost Children?

2. Once the narrative perspective shifts away from the woman, to whom does the narrative voice transfer?

3. After the woman's mother had gone to join a guerilla movement, how much time passed before the woman saw her mother again?

4. With what Roman numeral is the box marked that the boy retrieves from the trunk of the family car one night?

5. The woman believes that her voice as a mother needs to serve "as a" (160) what to her children's worlds?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 does the airplane symbolize within the Virginia Woolf epigraph at the start of Family Soundscapes: "Box IV"?

4. What question does the boy nervously ask the woman during a discussion about the novel Lord of the Flies?

5. Which section of the fifth elegy causes the woman to stop reading to the boy?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. What clues does the boy leave for the man and woman in regard to his and the girl's plans?

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

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

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

Analyze the interplay between the resolution of Lost Children Archive and one of the novel's main messages. How does Luiselli make connections between these elements and how does their juxtaposition help them get across one main message of the novel?

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