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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 sort of body of water is contained in the part of Elegies for Lost Children that the woman reads to the boy?
2. From what town does the boy plan to hop aboard a train while in the company of the girl?
3. 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?
4. As stated in the eighth elegy, the presence of what creature is the only thing that makes the girls in Elegies for Lost Children feel safe as they are crouched between train cars relieving themselves?
5. The woman claims that fear "in the daytime, under the sun" (157) belongs to whom?
Short Essay Questions
1. What event causes the boy to become unhappy for the first time since he and the girl had set out on their journey together?
2. What items does the boy pack in preparation for the trek into the desert and eventually to Echo Canyon?
3. What question does the boy nervously ask the woman during a discussion about the novel Lord of the Flies?
4. What does the airplane symbolize within the Virginia Woolf epigraph at the start of Family Soundscapes: "Box IV"?
5. 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?
6. What bright spot does the boy say will remain in the situation even if the man and woman never find the two of them?
7. 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?
8. What does the reader learn by the end of Part I about the woman's own childhood?
9. How does the fictional author of Elegies for Lost Children demonstrate the way in which the "man in charge" (164) despises being asked questions?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Analyze Luiselli’s focus on the plight of refugee children depicted in Lost Children Archive. What message is Luiselli sending about this social issue?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Luiselli’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of Lost Children Archive.
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