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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alive and Alone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Oskar want to know how his father died?
(a) So that they can put it on the death certificate.
(b) So he can stop inventing ways.
(c) So he will know what to tell people.
(d) So he can stop having nightmares.

2. What is significant about Grandma's Dresden and Thomas dreams in My Feelings?
(a) They only consist of brief snapshots.
(b) They happen in reverse.
(c) She experiences them outside her body.
(d) Oskar is in them.

3. What event does interviewee at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness describe?
(a) The firebombing of Dresden.
(b) The execution of Mussolini.
(c) The liberation of Dachau.
(d) The bombing of Hiroshima.

4. What does Grandma notice about Thomas's clothes in My Feelings?
(a) They are strangely formal.
(b) They are muddy.
(c) They are out of season.
(d) They are from the fifties.

5. What idea does Grandma have for her and Thomas's relationship in My Feelings?
(a) They should return to Dresden.
(b) They should only live together half the year.
(c) They should never see each other again.
(d) They should live in the airport.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Oskar particularly compelled by the renter when they meet in Alive and Alone?

2. In Happiness, Happiness, what child actor does Jimmy make sexually explicit comments about?

3. What does Mom ask Grandma to do when she calls her in My Feelings?

4. Whose hand does Oskar squeeze on his way to the top of the Empire State Building in Alive and Alone?

5. Which of the following is not something that Thomas Schell takes pictures of in My Feelings?

(see the answer key)

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