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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the road trip, the girl develops an obsession with a book called "The Book with No" (99) what?
(a) Cover.
(b) Swear words.
(c) Ending.
(d) Pictures.

2. Which member of the family ends up with the warrior name of Lucky Arrow?
(a) The man.
(b) The woman.
(c) The boy.
(d) The girl.

3. How many weeks have passed since the trip's beginning when Manuela calls the woman again?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

4. Whenever the woman turns on the radio in the family car, the first line of what novel is heard before anything else?
(a) The Road.
(b) The Bean Trees.
(c) Lord of the Flies.
(d) A Clockwork Orange.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As the family crosses Memphis, they play the song entitled "Graceland" by what musician?

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

4. When the boy discovers that a Polaroid picture will not develop properly in the light, what object does he use to protect his photos?

5. What gift does the woman give to the boy on his birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what purpose does the family at the center of the narrative bring bankers' boxes along on their road trip?

2. Compare and contrast the woman's response to the boy's angry outbursts with the man's reaction.

3. Describe the circumstances that led to the formation of the family at the center of Lost Children Archive.

4. What do the boy and girl call child refugees and what is the woman's reaction to their choice?

5. What quality does the woman say is difficult to maintain within a marriage in a "real and sustained" (82) manner?

6. What prompts the woman to begin to record the man's Apache stories as he tells them?

7. For what purpose does the family plan to travel to Lawton?

8. While the woman does not keep a journal, she uses what other method that she believes serves the same purpose?

9. What "superstitious impulse" (68) is the woman always unable to resist?

10. Describe the differences between the man's sound work and the woman's sound work.

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