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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Sixth Borough.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In The Sixth Borough, what had the engineers brought in to deal with the island previously worked on?
(a) Stonehenge.
(b) The city of Atlantis.
(c) The Leaning Tower fo Pizza.
(d) The San Andreas Fault.

3. What is the first business that Oskar consults about the key in Googolplex?
(a) An art store.
(b) His father's jewelry store.
(c) The family accountant.
(d) A locksmith.

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

5. Where does Oskar decide he wants to keep everything he loves at the end of Googolplex?
(a) In a safe.
(b) In a giant pocket.
(c) In heaven.
(d) Under his bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are writing?

2. Why is Oskall Shell home alone on September 11, 2001?

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

4. Which of the following is not something that Thomas Schell takes pictures of in My Feelings?

5. What words does Oskar Schell tell Abby Black define her in The Only Animal?

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