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Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the coffin that Oskar and his mother bury in What The? empty?
(a) Oskar's father's body was never found.
(b) Oskar's father has been cremated.
(c) Oskar's father requested this.
(d) Oskar's body is being held by the police.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does Thomas give Grandma regarding her memoir in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

2. What does the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are do with the notebook that has "ha ha ha!" in it?

3. What is the last word that the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are is able to speak?

4. According to Thomas in Why I'm Not Where You Are, what increased in number as he and Grandma's marriage developed?

5. Which of the following is not a function Oskar Schell imagines for his talking teapot in What The?

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