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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his letter in A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem, what does Stephen Hawking admit wishing that he could be?
(a) An actor.
(b) A waiter.
(c) An athlete.
(d) A poet.

2. How did Agnes Black Die on September 11, 2001?
(a) She committed suicide.
(b) She was in one of the planes.
(c) She was hit by debris.
(d) She worked in one of the towers.

3. How does Oskar respond to A.R. Black's announcement that he is quitting the search?
(a) He hugs him.
(b) He shouts a curse word at him.
(c) He shakes his hand.
(d) He cries.

4. On what floor of the Empire State Building did a plane crash in 1945?
(a) 33rd.
(b) 58th.
(c) 79th.
(d) 95th.

5. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, where does Thomas say he wants to live with Anna?
(a) In the Alps.
(b) In the Gobi Desert.
(c) On the French Riviera.
(d) On the blue Danube.

6. How is a famous landmark moved from the Sixth Borough to Manhattan?
(a) It is lifted by helicoptors.
(b) It is dragged by large hooks.
(c) It is carried across the six Staten Island Ferries.
(d) It is driven by a thousand pickup trucks.

7. In Happiness, Happiness, what child actor does Jimmy make sexually explicit comments about?
(a) Dakota Fanning.
(b) Haley Joel Osmond.
(c) Emma Watson.
(d) Jonathan Lipnicki.

8. What famous Manhattan landmark used to be in the Sixth Borough?
(a) The Empire State Building.
(b) Washington Square.
(c) Carnegie Hall.
(d) Central Park.

9. What does Oskar think is "grody" about the story of The Sixth Borough?
(a) The idea of two boys kissing each other.
(b) The idea of a dog farting.
(c) The idea of a person swimming in the Hudson.
(d) The idea of a boy pulling off a girl's skirt.

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

11. Why does Oskar want to know how his father died?
(a) So he will know what to tell people.
(b) So he can stop inventing ways.
(c) So that they can put it on the death certificate.
(d) So he can stop having nightmares.

12. Why does A.R. Black have to speak to the woman at Agnes Black's building for Oskar?
(a) She speaks Spanish.
(b) She doesn't talk to children.
(c) She thinks A.R. is cute.
(d) She doen't want to bend down to listen.

13. Which best describes the location of the Sixth Borough?
(a) It is a strip of land between Brooklyn and Queens.
(b) It is an island very close to Manhattan.
(c) It is a penninsula jutting off of Brooklyn.
(d) It sits adjacent to the Bronx.

14. What stylistically is noticeable about this chapter, Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) It is written phoenetically.
(b) The pages are printed upside down.
(c) The font changes to Courier New.
(d) Spelling and grammar errors are cirled in red.

15. What natural occurrence does Ruth Black talk about in Alive and Alone?
(a) Lunar eclipses.
(b) Solar flares.
(c) Static storms.
(d) St. Elmo's Fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Oskar nervous about meeting Ruth Black?

2. How long does A.R. help in the search before giving up in Alive and Alone?

3. How long does Thomas later learn the first bombing of Dresden lasted?

4. What continent, according to Thomas Schell, Jr. is now the home of the Sixth Borough?

5. Which of the following questions is not one that Oskar asks himself as he imagines a 9/11 type scenario in Alive and Alone?

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