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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. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, what does Thomas Schell, Sr., wonder about his doppelgangers?
(a) If they know they are doppelgangers.
(b) If they are lonely.
(c) If they are in America.
(d) If they have made the same mistakes as he.

2. What question does Oskar ask his mother about Ron in Googolplex?
(a) If his father knew him.
(b) If she is sleeping with him.
(c) If she loves him.
(d) If he is Jewish.

3. In Heavy Boots - Heavier Boots, what does each nail in A.R. Black's bed represent?
(a) A person who died on September 11th.
(b) A day since his wife died.
(c) A night he has not slept.
(d) A photo he has published.

4. How does Thomas burn the skin off his hands in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) He runs through a curtain of fire.
(b) He touches a hot doorknob.
(c) He grabs hold of a smothering corpse.
(d) He falls into a pubble of burning fuel.

5. At the beginning of The Only Animal, Oskar remembers his dad explain how he could change what gargantuan natural formation?
(a) The Sahara Desert.
(b) The Polar Icecaps.
(c) The Grand Canyon.
(d) The Alps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous person sends a form letter to Oskar Schell at the end of The Only Animal?

2. Which of the following is something that Oskar determines he will not be fore starting his quest on The Only Animal?

3. What is the only object Thomas retrieves in the rubble of Dresden?

4. To whom is Thomas writing Why I'm Not Where You Are?

5. What is written on key Oskar finds in Googolplex?

(see the answer key)

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