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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oskar suspect Feliz is lying about Agnes Black in Happiness, Happiness?
(a) She is dead.
(b) She has no children.
(c) She did not know his father.
(d) They lived in the same building.

2. Which of the following is not something that Thomas Schell takes pictures of in My Feelings?
(a) Grandma.
(b) Doorknobs.
(c) The undersides of bookshelves.
(d) The sky.

3. What does the interviewee at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness call for at the end of his story?
(a) Foreign aid to his country.
(b) The end of war.
(c) The rise of the revolutionary workers.
(d) The prosecution of Harry Truman.

4. How long is the letter that Grandma's own grandmother gives her in My Feelings?
(a) 1 page long.
(b) 1 sentence long.
(c) 67 pages long.
(d) 1 word long.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two career paths does Allen Black imagine for his son in Happiness, Happiness?

2. How does Thomas Schell, Sr., describe his son's voice on the September 11th messages?

3. Why does A.R. Black have to speak to the woman at Agnes Black's building for Oskar?

4. Why does Oskar want to know how his father died?

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

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