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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 is the only object that Grandma has to remind her of her father?
(a) A letter from him.
(b) His cane.
(c) A photo of him in Berlin.
(d) His hat.

2. What phrase does Thomas Schell point to over and over as he and Grandma cry in My Feelings?
(a) Ha ha ha.
(b) Help.
(c) How sad.
(d) One please.

3. What is tattooed on Thomas's right palm when Grandma sees him in Manhattan in My Feelings?
(a) Anna.
(b) Love.
(c) Thomas.
(d) No.

4. What does Grandma resolve to do the morning of the Dresden bombing?
(a) Leave Dresden.
(b) Write the Turkish prisoner back.
(c) Apologize to her sister.
(d) Ask Thomas to kiss her.

5. Where do Grandma and Thomas go before coming home on their final night together?
(a) The airport.
(b) The Columbian Bakery.
(c) Central Park.
(d) The jewelry store.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Oskar nervous about meeting Ruth Black?

2. What does the interviewee at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness call for at the end of his story?

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

4. Who in Grandma's family begins a mental collapse as the war approaches?

5. Which famous person declines to look at a letter of recommendation in Happiness, Happiness?

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