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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Family Soundscapes: "Box IV" - Reenactment: "Deportations".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of the sound documentary the woman begins creating after finishing the language project?
(a) Rape.
(b) Santeria.
(c) Appropriation.
(d) Child refugees.

2. After the woman's mother had gone to join a guerilla movement, how much time passed before the woman saw her mother again?
(a) 6 weeks.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 2 years.

3. From what state does the family at the center of the narrative depart at the beginning of the novel?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Puebla.
(c) New York.
(d) California.

4. What past tense verb does the woman use to describe the action she and the man had taken in relation to language for their long-term collaborative project?
(a) Transcribed.
(b) Sampled.
(c) Spoke.
(d) Heard.

5. The woman recalls that she had been how old when her mother had left the family to "join a guerilla movement" (172)?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. The boy uses information from his pediatrician to determine that children usually do not retain memories made before what age?

2. Into what part of Manuela's daughters' dresses does their grandmother sew Manuela's phone number?

3. To what kind of establishment does the woman walk the night she ends up in a flirtatious encounter with a stranger?

4. Whose belief that the road trip is moving too slowly results in a quicker pace from then on?

5. To whom does Box IV belong?

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