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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the woman wants to know what the boy would do if he and the girl became lost, he answers that he would look for the man and the woman in what location?
(a) In Benedict Canyon.
(b) In Laurel Canyon.
(c) In New York City.
(d) In Echo Canyon.

2. The man tells the woman that after the death of the boy's biological mother, he frequently struggled with what?
(a) Malnutrition.
(b) Insomnia.
(c) Nightmares.
(d) Balance.

3. The boy wishes that instead of giving the photograph to the man, he had kept it for which character?
(a) The woman.
(b) Manuela.
(c) Himself.
(d) The girl.

4. At what kind of establishment has the family stopped when they hear about the imminent deportation of children?
(a) A cafe.
(b) A motel.
(c) A bookstore.
(d) A gas station.

5. What word spoken by the girl does the boy use as an example of the girl's intermittent brilliance?
(a) Haunted.
(b) Fret.
(c) Relatively.
(d) Future.

6. Once the narrative perspective shifts away from the woman, to whom does the narrative voice transfer?
(a) The boy.
(b) The girl.
(c) The man.
(d) Manuela.

7. To whom does Box IV belong?
(a) The boy.
(b) The girl.
(c) The woman.
(d) The man.

8. What is NOT one of the water tanks the boy plans to pass along his planned route to a particular canyon?
(a) Still Tank.
(b) Willow Tank.
(c) Echo Tank.
(d) Big Tank.

9. How many children at the train yard dedicate their time to caring for the refugee children's damaged feet?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

10. Which object that the boy puts into his backpack as he prepares for the trek into the desert does not belong to the woman?
(a) The pair of binoculars.
(b) The book called The Elegies of Lost Children.
(c) The large map.
(d) The sound recorder.

11. In what part of Mexico had the woman's mother joined a guerilla movement after leaving her family?
(a) Western.
(b) Southern.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Northern.

12. What term does the girl use to refer to the boy after he describes how an echo works?
(a) Magician.
(b) Liar.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Mr. Wizard.

13. When the boy describes eating "a real breakfast in a diner" (218) the reader is meant to recognize which location that was also described earlier in the narrative by the woman?
(a) Dixie's Cafe.
(b) Aroma Cafe.
(c) Juliet Cafe.
(d) Billie's Cafe.

14. The coyote in Elegies for Lost Children begins with how many children under his supervision on their way to the United States?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 11.
(d) 4.

15. How many children does the cashier say will be deported from an airport near Roswell the following day?
(a) Scores.
(b) Thousands.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Dozens.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How many children does the family count as they walk out to the plane to be deported?

4. 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?

5. In what stage of life was the boy when his biological mother died?

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