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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Why I'm Not Where You Are (9/11/03).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does Oskar play in Hamlet?
(a) Hamlet's father.
(b) Laertes.
(c) Yorick.
(d) Horacio.

2. Who communicates with Oskar via notes he reads by binoculars?
(a) His friend from school.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His Mother.
(d) Gerald Thompson.

3. Oskar's father often tells him that he is too smart for what?
(a) America.
(b) Retail.
(c) This planet.
(d) School.

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

5. Where does Oskar decide he wants to keep everything he loves at the end of Googolplex?
(a) In a giant pocket.
(b) In heaven.
(c) In a safe.
(d) Under his bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in Brooklyn does Abe Black live?

2. What does Abby Black refuse to do for Oskar in The Only Animal?

3. What French expression does Oskar repeatedly use to refer to his mother?

4. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, what news can Thomas not bring himself to tell Grandma about her father?

5. What does Thomas say to Anna to try to comfort her about her father in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

(see the answer key)

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