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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the coffin that Oskar and his mother bury in What The? empty?
(a) Oskar's father requested this.
(b) Oskar's father has been cremated.
(c) Oskar's father's body was never found.
(d) Oskar's body is being held by the police.

2. What does Thomas say he is going to do when he leaves the apartment in My Feelings?
(a) He is going to get breakfast.
(b) He is going to help Oskar in his quest.
(c) He is going to buy her magazines.
(d) He is leaving her.

3. What does Grandma regularly ask Thomas Schell to pick up at the airport for her?
(a) Baggage tags.
(b) Racing forms.
(c) Newspapers and magazines.
(d) Hairbrushes and combs.

4. What is the only color that Oskar will wear?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Orange.
(d) Blue.

5. To whom is Thomas writing Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) Grandma.
(b) Oskar.
(c) Anna.
(d) His unborn son.

6. Which famous person sends a form letter to Oskar Schell at the end of The Only Animal?
(a) Stephen Hawking.
(b) Paul McCartney.
(c) Weird Al Yankovich.
(d) Kofi Annan.

7. What is the last thing that the narrator writes to the woman in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) Ha ha ha.
(b) Help.
(c) No, thank you.
(d) I love you.

8. What lie does Oskar Schell tell Abby Black in The Only Animal?
(a) He is selling magazine subscriptions.
(b) He is 14.
(c) He has diabetes.
(d) He is her nephew.

9. What is the last word that the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are is able to speak?
(a) I.
(b) Stomach.
(c) No.
(d) Desire.

10. Why has Oskar never met his grandfather?
(a) He stayed in Europe after the War.
(b) He refuses to see anyone.
(c) He died in World War Two.
(d) He left his grandmother.

11. What does Grandma's life story consist of in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) Blank pages.
(b) Single words.
(c) Excerpts from other novels.
(d) Scrawled pictures.

12. Where does Grandma secretly spy on Thomas in My Feelings?
(a) Central Park.
(b) The Columbian Bakery.
(c) The bus.
(d) The airport.

13. What is Grandma doing as she watches television in My Feelings?
(a) Typing her autobiography.
(b) Knitting.
(c) Mending a shirt.
(d) Dozing off.

14. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, what does Thomas Schell, Sr., wonder about his doppelgangers?
(a) If they have made the same mistakes as he.
(b) If they know they are doppelgangers.
(c) If they are lonely.
(d) If they are in America.

15. What does Grandma say she wishes she could do near the end of My Feelings?
(a) She could see her husband for one more night.
(b) She could die on command.
(c) She could trade places with her son.
(d) She could reverse the events of the day.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many messages from his father does Oskar Schell find on his family's answering machine in What The?

2. What is tattooed on Thomas's right palm when Grandma sees him in Manhattan in My Feelings?

3. Which of the following is not something Grandma remembers as she sits with Oskar in My Feelings?

4. What is the last thing Grandma says to Oskar in My Feelings?

5. In Heavy Boots - Heavier Boots, what does each nail in A.R. Black's bed represent?

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