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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Reenactment: "Maps and Boxes" - "Lost".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many girls are under the supervision of the coyote at the start of the journey in Elegies for Lost Children?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

2. The epigraph by Virginia Woolf introducing Box IV mentions which vehicle of transportation?
(a) An airplane.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A coal cart.
(d) A train.

3. What is the only object the boy packs inside of the girl's backpack before he takes her on a trek into the desert?
(a) A book.
(b) A bottle of water.
(c) A map.
(d) A flashlight.

4. The note the boy leaves inside one of the banker's boxes says that he and the girl are going to look for the "lost" (238) what?
(a) Boys.
(b) Girls.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

5. Which member of the family is named as having "arranged all the chaos around" the family "into a world" (184)?
(a) The girl.
(b) The man.
(c) The woman.
(d) The boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What word spoken by the girl does the boy use as an example of the girl's intermittent brilliance?

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

4. What term does the girl use to refer to the boy after he describes how an echo works?

5. Which member of the family at the narrative's center identifies as a "documentarist" (98)?

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