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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Why I'm Not Where You Are (5/21/63).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Grandma and Thomas call the places in their apartment where they can be alone?
(a) Blue places.
(b) Nothing places.
(c) Other places.
(d) Safe places.

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

3. What does the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are do when he runs out of pages while talking to someone?
(a) Finds a fitting message on an earlier page.
(b) Writes on his arm.
(c) Walks way abruptly.
(d) Scrawls out letters in the air with his finger.

4. To whom is the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are writing?
(a) His dead wife.
(b) His unborn son.
(c) Himself.
(d) His mother.

5. What is the first written single page message in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) Help.
(b) Thank you, but I'm about to burst.
(c) Ha ha ha!
(d) I want two rolls.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the verge of losing everything in Dresden, what does Thomas imagine nourishing the trees as he walks down a road?

2. Which Beatles song does Oskar recall his father whistling?

3. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, Thomas says he would give anything never to think of what again?

4. Who wrote Oskar's favorite book?

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

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