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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Only Animal.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grandma regularly ask Thomas Schell to pick up at the airport for her?
(a) Hairbrushes and combs.
(b) Racing forms.
(c) Newspapers and magazines.
(d) Baggage tags.

2. What logical reason does Oskar give for everyone in the world not being able to play Hamlet at the same time?
(a) Many do not have access to the play.
(b) No one could play the other roles.
(c) Half the world are women.
(d) There are not enough skulls.

3. What is significant about Grandma's Dresden and Thomas dreams in My Feelings?
(a) Oskar is in them.
(b) They only consist of brief snapshots.
(c) She experiences them outside her body.
(d) They happen in reverse.

4. During their conversation in My Feelings, what does Mom do for Grandma for the first time?
(a) Admit she never loved Thomas.
(b) Say thank you.
(c) Say she loves her.
(d) Cry.

5. What is the only object that Grandma has to remind her of her father?
(a) A letter from him.
(b) His hat.
(c) His cane.
(d) A photo of him in Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Googolplex, what does Oskar invent to go under his pillow?

2. Where do Grandma and Thomas go before coming home on their final night together?

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

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

5. What does Thomas tell Grandma he has not done since coming to America in My Feelings?

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