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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The woman's story about her parents traveling to India revolves around what object?
2. At the time of the narrative's beginning, which character has just had a birthday the previous day?
3. What animal does the boy hope will appear in the photograph he takes at the Baltimore aquarium?
4. Which member of the family at the narrative's center identifies as a "documentarian" (98)?
5. What emotion does the woman say that the boy "normally represses" (37)?
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. In what way does Luiselli use the traditional notion of the American Dream to comment on the reasons refugees from the Northern Triangle leave their homes?
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 differences between the man's sound work and the woman's sound work.
5. What do the boy and girl call child refugees and what is the woman's reaction to their choice?
6. What does the reader learn about La Bestia when the family listens to a radio interview with a child refugee?
7. How does the man reply when the boy asks him why he has chosen the Apache tribe as the subject of his newest project?
8. What quality does the woman say is difficult to maintain within a marriage in a "real and sustained" (82) manner?
9. While the woman does not keep a journal, she uses what other method that she believes serves the same purpose?
10. How is the road trip from New York to Arizona a symbol of the family's imminent separation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Luiselli's choice to tell the story of Lost Children Archive using the first person point-of-view of more than one member in the family at the text’s center. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Luiselli’s intended effects on the reader?
Essay Topic 2
How does the theme of deception function within Lost Children Archive and what is Luiselli’s message regarding this theme?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the interplay between the resolution of Lost Children Archive and one of the novel's main messages. How does Luiselli make connections between these elements and how does their juxtaposition help them get across one main message of the novel?
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