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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. In The Sixth Borough, what had the engineers brought in to deal with the island previously worked on?
(a) The San Andreas Fault.
(b) The city of Atlantis.
(c) The Leaning Tower fo Pizza.
(d) Stonehenge.

6. How fast is the Sixth Borough drifting away from New York in the story?
(a) 1 meter a year.
(b) 1 foot a year.
(c) 1 millimeter a year.
(d) Half a mile a year.

7. What is the only reason Grandma comes into Thomas's guest room the first two months that he is there?
(a) To collect rent.
(b) To yell at him.
(c) To clean.
(d) To make love.

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

9. What does the interviewee at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness call for at the end of his story?
(a) The rise of the revolutionary workers.
(b) The prosecution of Harry Truman.
(c) Foreign aid to his country.
(d) The end of war.

10. Which of the Blacks that Oskar visited informed his mom of the search?
(a) Abe.
(b) A.R.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Abby.

11. According to Grandma in Why I'm Not Where You Are, why did Thomas, Jr. take over the jewelry store?
(a) He wanted to be like his father.
(b) He wanted to get into the diamond business.
(c) He had no other talents.
(d) He wanted to make money.

12. 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 refuses to talk to Oskar.
(d) He has taken of his hearing aids permanently.

13. Which direction direction does the long jumper run across Manhattan in preparation for his jump to the Sixth Borough?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) West.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what floor of the Empire State Building did a plane crash in 1945?

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

3. What does Albert Black do for a living?

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

5. How does Thomas burn the skin off his hands in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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