Lost Children Archive Test | Final Test - Hard

Valeria Luiselli
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 192 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Lost Children Archive Test | Final Test - Hard

Valeria Luiselli
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 192 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. After the boy and girl part company with the rancher riding a tractor, they immediately run to take what action?

2. The woman claims that "At night, fear belongs to" (157) whom?

3. What term does the girl use to refer to the boy after he describes how an echo works?

4. At what kind of establishment has the family stopped when they hear about the imminent deportation of children?

5. How does the rest of the family react when the boy throws an object off the cliff in hopes of breaking the tense silence at lunch on the day of the hike?

Short Essay Questions

1. What example does the boy give when he claims that the girl is "sometimes really smart" (196)?

2. What is the woman's philosophy about answering the questions of the boy and girl?

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

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

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

6. What clues does the boy leave for the man and woman in regard to his and the girl's plans?

7. What sight in the backseat causes the woman to relent and to grant the boy's request to play "Space Oddity" again after the "fifth or sixth time" (156)?

8. What kind of animal does the boy wish for once he realizes that he and the girl are lost and why?

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

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

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

What messages does Luiselli send about family bonds and what themes are employed in order to send these messages to the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how and why Luiselli instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Lost Children Archive.

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