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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 object does Oskar discover when he enters Grandma's apartment in Alive and Alone?
(a) A typewriter.
(b) A bundle of letters.
(c) The old telephone.
(d) A photo album.

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

3. What natural occurrence does Ruth Black talk about in Alive and Alone?
(a) Static storms.
(b) Solar flares.
(c) St. Elmo's Fire.
(d) Lunar eclipses.

4. On what floor of the Empire State Building did a plane crash in 1945?
(a) 79th.
(b) 58th.
(c) 33rd.
(d) 95th.

5. What does Mom ask Grandma to do when she calls her in My Feelings?
(a) Try to contact Thomas, Jr.
(b) Put up posters with her son's picture.
(c) Watch Oskar.
(d) Close the jewelry store.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is the prisoner that writes Grandma as a girl?

2. By the time Mom returns home in My Feeling, what does Grandma know?

3. What does Grandma resolve to do the morning of the Dresden bombing?

4. What does Grandma give a child on the first Halloween with Thomas?

5. What idea does Grandma have for her and Thomas's relationship in My Feelings?

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