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

2. What phrase does Thomas Schell point to over and over as he and Grandma cry in My Feelings?
(a) Help.
(b) Ha ha ha.
(c) One please.
(d) How sad.

3. What is tattooed on Thomas's right palm when Grandma sees him in Manhattan in My Feelings?
(a) No.
(b) Anna.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Love.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of The Only Animal, Oskar remembers his dad explain how he could change what gargantuan natural formation?

2. How many messages from his father does Oskar Schell find on his family's answering machine in What The?

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

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

5. What does Thomas say he is going to do when he leaves the apartment in My Feelings?

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