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

2. Manuela reports to the woman that her two daughters have disappeared somewhere between two detention centers in what states?
(a) New Mexico and Texas.
(b) Texas and Arizona.
(c) New Mexico and Arizona.
(d) California and Arizona.

3. How are the boy and girl related to the man and the woman with whom they are traveling?
(a) The girl and boy are the children of family friends.
(b) The girl and boy are the biological children of the man.
(c) The girl and boy are the niece and nephew of the man and woman.
(d) The girl is the woman's biological daughter and the boy is the man's biological son.

4. About how many languages does the woman say are spoken in New York City?
(a) 500.
(b) 120.
(c) 800.
(d) 1,200.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what type of dwelling had the man, woman, boy, and girl first lived together?

3. During the road trip, the girl develops an obsession with a book called "The Book with No" (99) what?

4. How old is the girl upon the narrative's opening?

5. How many daughters does Manuela have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What object does the woman collect during the trip and keep inside her boot for the remainder of the trip and why?

2. How does the woman react to hearing the radio interview with the boy being held in a Texas detention center?

3. What sort of text is included within the man's Box III that is not included within the woman's box?

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

5. What warrior name does each member of the family take on and who begins the process?

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

7. While the man wants the road trip to end in Arizona, the woman wants to visit what state so that she can pursue her own next project?

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

9. When the woman is conflicted about whether to record the sounds of the family's road trip, what does she say she wishes she could do instead?

10. How is the road trip from New York to Arizona a symbol of the family's imminent separation?

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