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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Googolplex.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What request does the woman in Why I'm Not Where You Are make of the narrator?
(a) That he kiss her.
(b) That he marry her.
(c) That he buy her a coffee.
(d) That he smile for her.

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

3. What famous person writes Oskar Schell in Googolplex?
(a) Michael Bloomberg.
(b) George W. Bush.
(c) Richard Dawkins.
(d) Ringo Starr.

4. What adjective does Oskar Schell use to describe September 11, 2001?
(a) Smoky.
(b) Sad.
(c) Worst.
(d) Long.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Anna and Thomas first make love in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

2. On what gift to his mother does Oskar leave a coded form of his father's last message in Googolplex?

3. To whom is the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are talking when he begins losing the ability to speak?

4. How does Oskar Schell meet Gerald Thompson in What The?

5. Oskar's father often tells him that he is too smart for what?

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