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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Beautiful and True.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which two career paths does Allen Black imagine for his son in Happiness, Happiness?
(a) Famous actor or restauranteur.
(b) Brain surgeon or lawyer.
(c) Architect or stock trader.
(d) Basketball star or senator.

3. How does Thomas burn the skin off his hands in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) He grabs hold of a smothering corpse.
(b) He runs through a curtain of fire.
(c) He touches a hot doorknob.
(d) He falls into a pubble of burning fuel.

4. Why is Oskar particularly compelled by the renter when they meet in Alive and Alone?
(a) He speaks German.
(b) He gives Oskar five dollars.
(c) He resembles his father.
(d) He is incredibly old.

5. Who is the only character to attend every performance of Hamlet in Heavy Boots - Heavier Boots?
(a) Grandma.
(b) Abby Black.
(c) Stan.
(d) Oskar's Mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jimmy do backstage that angers Oskar in Heavy Boots - Heavier Boots?

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

3. What does the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are do when he runs out of pages while talking to someone?

4. Why does Oskar excuse himself to A.R. Black's bathroom in Heavy Boots - Heavier Boots?

5. What does Grandma give a child on the first Halloween with Thomas?

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