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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Why I'm Not Where You Are (4/12/78).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Thomas find Anna shortly before the bombing in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) He finds her in a prison camp.
(b) He waits in her house.
(c) He finds her in Switzerland.
(d) He runs into her on the road.

2. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, what news can Thomas not bring himself to tell Grandma about her father?
(a) He was collaborating with the Nazis.
(b) He left his wife to die in the flames.
(c) He was killed in the bombing.
(d) He commited suicide.

3. What does Thomas say to Anna to try to comfort her about her father in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) The war will be over soon.
(b) Her father is a silly fool.
(c) He will talk to her father.
(d) He wants to marry her.

4. What happens in Heavy Boots-Heavier Boots that starts A.R. Black's crying?
(a) He stumps his toe.
(b) A Neil Sedaka song comes on the radio.
(c) The lights go out in his apartment.
(d) Birds fly by his window.

5. On what gift to his mother does Oskar leave a coded form of his father's last message in Googolplex?
(a) A painting.
(b) A cookie.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A scarf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first written single page message in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

2. What does the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are do when he runs out of pages while talking to someone?

3. What does the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are do with the notebook that has "ha ha ha!" in it?

4. Why has Oskar never met his grandfather?

5. What word does A.R. Black cross out on his file card?

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