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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What affliction does A.R. Black have?
(a) He has seizures.
(b) He is blind.
(c) He is deaf.
(d) He cannot walk.

2. Which of the following functions is not one that the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are uses his old books for?
(a) Doorstops.
(b) Lining for birdcages.
(c) Donations to schools.
(d) Paperweights.

3. During their conversation in My Feelings, what does Mom do for Grandma for the first time?
(a) Say she loves her.
(b) Say thank you.
(c) Cry.
(d) Admit she never loved Thomas.

4. What request does the woman in Why I'm Not Where You Are make of the narrator?
(a) That he marry her.
(b) That he kiss her.
(c) That he smile for her.
(d) That he buy her a coffee.

5. What role does Oskar play in Hamlet?
(a) Yorick.
(b) Horacio.
(c) Hamlet's father.
(d) Laertes.

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

7. How does Thomas find Anna shortly before the bombing in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) He finds her in a prison camp.
(b) He finds her in Switzerland.
(c) He runs into her on the road.
(d) He waits in her house.

8. At the end of My Feelings, grandma receives a letter from whom?
(a) Anna.
(b) Thomas, Sr.
(c) Oskar.
(d) Thomas, Jr.

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

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

11. In The Only Animal, what does Oskar say elephants may have?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Houses.
(c) ESP.
(d) Elections.

12. Who communicates with Oskar via notes he reads by binoculars?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) Gerald Thompson.
(c) His friend from school.
(d) His Mother.

13. What does Jimmy do backstage that angers Oskar in Heavy Boots - Heavier Boots?
(a) He pushes Milch.
(b) He calls Oskar a spaz.
(c) He intentionally makes Oskar miss his entrance.
(d) He makes fun of Grandma.

14. In which borough does Aaron Black live?
(a) Queens.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Staten Island.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, what does Thomas Schell, Sr., wonder about his doppelgangers?

2. What does Grandma notice about Thomas's clothes in My Feelings?

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

4. Which Black lives in the same building as Oskar?

5. Which of the following is not a word that Oskar thinks would have been on his father's file card?

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