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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many messages from his father does Oskar Schell find on his family's answering machine in What The?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) None.

2. What does Oskar keep under his bed and listen to at night?
(a) A phone.
(b) A music box.
(c) A personal tape recorder.
(d) A Beatles record.

3. What noises do the students make at the end of Oskar's presentation in Happiness, Happiness?
(a) Boos.
(b) Coughs.
(c) Fart sounds.
(d) Barfing noises.

4. Where is Mom when Oskar falls asleep on the night of September 11, 2001?
(a) Sedated in her bedroom.
(b) Sitting next to him.
(c) At ground zero.
(d) Hanging posters around town.

5. Which of the following is not a function Oskar Schell imagines for his talking teapot in What The?
(a) Sounds like a train.
(b) Speaks like his father.
(c) Sings Yellow Submarine.
(d) Recites Hamlet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does interviewee at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness describe?

2. What does Grandma say she wishes she could do near the end of My Feelings?

3. As she watches images of the Towers falling, what does she say she is full of?

4. What is the only object Thomas retrieves in the rubble of Dresden?

5. Who wrote Oskar's favorite book?

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