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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. What piece of information does the woman ask the boy to recite upon demand?
(a) The phone numbers of the man and the woman.
(b) The family's address in New York City.
(c) The girl's blood type.
(d) His social security number.

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

3. What is NOT something to which the woman has been accustomed within the confines of the car during the road trip?
(a) Billboards.
(b) The family's smell.
(c) Intermittent silence.
(d) Instant coffee.

4. What term does the boy use to describe the things he had "invented and perfected way before" (204) the family's road trip?
(a) Arrow-maps.
(b) Hand-traps.
(c) Nap-clouds.
(d) Finger-maps.

5. From what town does the boy plan to hop aboard a train while in the company of the girl?
(a) Sugar Pine.
(b) Ellis.
(c) Lordsburg.
(d) Elko.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of body of water is contained in the part of Elegies for Lost Children that the woman reads to the boy?

2. The boy regrets giving a photograph of which character to the man as a present?

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

4. The boy says that when the man gets in one of his melancholy moods, he never takes what action?

5. To whom does Box IV belong?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the airplane symbolize within the Virginia Woolf epigraph at the start of Family Soundscapes: "Box IV"?

2. What question does the boy nervously ask the woman during a discussion about the novel Lord of the Flies?

3. What major change in narration takes place at the start of the part called Reenactment?

4. How does the boy answer the woman's queries about the procedures he would follow if he and the girl ever became lost? What is the woman's reaction to the boy's answer?

5. What commonalities does the boy find between the careers of the man and the woman?

6. Discuss how the boy's reunion with the girl comes about after their separation and include discussion of the boy's reaction to their reunion.

7. What bright spot does the boy say will remain in the situation even if the man and woman never find the two of them?

8. What event causes the boy to become unhappy for the first time since he and the girl had set out on their journey together?

9. What does the reader learn by the end of Part I about the woman's own childhood?

10. What simile does the boy use to describe his relationship with the woman's mother?

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