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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal does the boy hope will appear in the photograph he takes at the Baltimore aquarium?
(a) A turtle.
(b) A starfish.
(c) An octopus.
(d) A fish.

2. What past tense verb does the woman use to indicate what happened to the girl's biological father?
(a) Disappeared.
(b) Died.
(c) Committed.
(d) Divorced.

3. At the time of the narrative's beginning, which character has just had a birthday the previous day?
(a) The husband.
(b) The boy.
(c) The wife.
(d) The girl.

4. Which member of the family ends up with the warrior name of Swift Feather?
(a) The girl.
(b) The boy.
(c) The man.
(d) The woman.

5. The family is pulled over for what kind of traffic violation at one point early in their road trip?
(a) Speeding.
(b) Not stopping at a stop sign.
(c) Jaywalking.
(d) Running a red light.

6. Which member of the family at the narrative's center identifies as a "documentarist" (98)?
(a) The girl.
(b) The man.
(c) The boy.
(d) The woman.

7. For how many years have the man and the woman at the center of the narrative known one another?
(a) 1 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 4 years.

8. 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) Spoke.
(b) Heard.
(c) Transcribed.
(d) Sampled.

9. On the way to Lawton, the man and woman promise the boy and girl a visit to what location?
(a) A basketball court.
(b) A swimming pool.
(c) An amusement park.
(d) The UFO museum.

10. The woman states that in the past "six or seven months" (18) over how many undocumented children from Mexico and the Northern Triangle had been detained at the southern U.S. border?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 80,000.
(d) 50,000.

11. The woman recalls that when she had been three months' pregnant with the girl, she had visited which of her family members in Chicago?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

12. With whom does the woman share news of trouble in her marriage before the family leaves for the road trip?
(a) A couple of friends.
(b) No one.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The boy and the girl.

13. The man tells the woman one day that his new project will call for him to relocate "more permanently" (20) to what part of the United States?
(a) The midwest.
(b) The northeast.
(c) The northwest.
(d) The southwest.

14. The woman compares a documentarist to what other career position?
(a) A chemist.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A librarian.
(d) A fortuneteller.

15. The woman compares a documentarian to what other career position?
(a) A librarian.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A fortuneteller.
(d) A librarian.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman muses at one point that what element, when "real and sustained" (82) is hard to achieve within marriage?

2. Manuela originally asks the woman to help her prevent her daughters from what fate?

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

4. The archival studies specialist to whom the woman turns for support is a professor at which university?

5. Manuela reports to the woman that her two daughters have disappeared somewhere between two detention centers in what states?

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