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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 becomes difficult for childhood friends in The Sixth Borough?
(a) Playing catch between the boroughs.
(b) Tossing a paper airplane back and forth.
(c) Singing in harmony.
(d) Talking on a tin-can phone.

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

3. Oskar's father often tells him that he is too smart for what?
(a) America.
(b) School.
(c) This planet.
(d) Retail.

4. Which of the following is a borough of New York that Oskar determines he has never visited at the beginning of The Sixth Borough?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Queens.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) The Bronx.

5. Who in Grandma's family begins a mental collapse as the war approaches?
(a) Her brother .
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only color that Oskar will wear?

2. What does Oskar think is "grody" about the story of The Sixth Borough?

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

4. Which of the following functions is not one that the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are uses his old books for?

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

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