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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem, what does Oskar recall doing when dad calls on September 11, 2001?
(a) Listening to the answering machine pick up.
(b) Leaving the room.
(c) Picking up the receiver and hanging back up.
(d) Answering the phone and crying.

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

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

5. Why does Oskar agree to see Dr. Fein in Happiness, Happiness?
(a) His mother begs him.
(b) He wants abreak from the quest.
(c) His allowance depends on it.
(d) Grandma says she likes Dr. Fein.

6. Which of the following is not evidence cited by Thomas Schell, Jr. of these existence of the Sixth Borough?
(a) A placard found on the bottom of the Hudson.
(b) The pH levels of the reservoir,
(c) Two names carved on a tree.
(d) Holes in the Central Park Zoo.

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

8. Whose hand does Oskar squeeze on his way to the top of the Empire State Building in Alive and Alone?
(a) Thomas Schell, Sr.'s.
(b) Grandma's.
(c) Ruth Black's.
(d) A.R. Black's.

9. What is Thomas's response to Grandma's comment in Why I'm Not Where You Are that many babies will not be born because of 9/11?
(a) That is unfathomable.
(b) Many more will be born because of it.
(c) It is not so bad.
(d) He cannot think about tragedy anymore.

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

11. Why is Oskar nervous about meeting Ruth Black?
(a) She lives way out in Staten Island.
(b) She lives atop a skyscraper.
(c) He hasn't gone alone to an apartment in some time.
(d) He worries he does not look his best.

12. What does Oskar decide to do in the final moment of Alive and Alone?
(a) Live with Grandma and the renter.
(b) Dig up Dad's coffin.
(c) Leave the country.
(d) Throw away the key.

13. Why can Oskar not speak to A.R. Black at the beginning of A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem?
(a) He has moved out.
(b) He has died.
(c) He has taken of his hearing aids permanently.
(d) He refuses to talk to Oskar.

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

15. What does Albert Black do for a living?
(a) Events planner.
(b) Actor.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Accountant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous Manhattan landmark used to be in the Sixth Borough?

2. In The Sixth Borough, what had the engineers brought in to deal with the island previously worked on?

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

4. Which of the following is a borough of New York that Oskar determines he has never visited at the beginning of The Sixth Borough?

5. What does the interviewee at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness call for at the end of his story?

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