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

2. The woman realizes at one point that the boy and girl use the term "lost children" (74) to refer to whom?
(a) Trafficked children.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Child refugees.

3. When the boy discovers that a Polaroid picture will not develop properly in the light, what object does he use to protect his photos?
(a) A box of tissues.
(b) A book.
(c) A box.
(d) A paper bag.

4. 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 northeast.
(b) The northwest.
(c) The southwest.
(d) The midwest.

5. Manuela originally asks the woman to help her prevent her daughters from what fate?
(a) From being kidnapped.
(b) From being arrested.
(c) From being deported.
(d) From being physically abused.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Bosavi people believe that the only sounds that constitute "the voice of memory and the resonance of ancestry" (98) are made by what creatures?

2. How are the boy and girl related to the man and the woman with whom they are traveling?

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

4. Each member of the family buys something when the family ventures into what kind of store during their road trip?

5. The woman tells the reader that the man no longer looks "very often" (43) at what part of her body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the reader learn about La Bestia when the family listens to a radio interview with a child refugee?

2. Describe how Luiselli uses the theme of appearance versus reality to characterize the notion of romantic partnership.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Discuss one of the quotes Luiselli uses as an epigraph within Part I: Soundscapes and how its themes are reflected within the first few passages of the novel.

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

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