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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. To whom is the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are talking when he begins losing the ability to speak?
(a) A customs official.
(b) His brother.
(c) No one.
(d) A waiter.

2. Which Beatles song does Oskar recall his father whistling?
(a) I Am the Walrus.
(b) Let It Be.
(c) Bungalo Bill.
(d) Something.

3. What is the last word that the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are is able to speak?
(a) No.
(b) Desire.
(c) I.
(d) Stomach.

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

5. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, Thomas says he would give anything never to think of what again?
(a) America.
(b) Anna.
(c) His sculptures.
(d) Dresden.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Grandma's life story consist of in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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

4. What command does Oskar refuse in his first jujitsu class?

5. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, what does Thomas Schell, Sr., wonder about his doppelgangers?

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