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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Why I'm Not Where Your Are, how does Thomas Schell get from the airport to Grandma's building?
(a) He takes a shuttle bus.
(b) He walks.
(c) He rents a car.
(d) He takes a taxi.

2. What happens in Heavy Boots-Heavier Boots that starts A.R. Black's crying?
(a) He stumps his toe.
(b) A Neil Sedaka song comes on the radio.
(c) The lights go out in his apartment.
(d) Birds fly by his window.

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

4. How long is the letter that Grandma's own grandmother gives her in My Feelings?
(a) 1 sentence long.
(b) 1 page long.
(c) 1 word long.
(d) 67 pages long.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only object that Grandma has to remind her of her father?

2. Which of the following is not a function Oskar Schell imagines for his talking teapot in What The?

3. What noises do the students make at the end of Oskar's presentation in Happiness, Happiness?

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

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

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