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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following questions is not one that Oskar asks himself as he imagines a 9/11 type scenario in Alive and Alone?
(a) Who would he call?
(b) Would he jump or burn to death?
(c) Will he see it coming?
(d) What would he say to the last person he called?

4. What continent, according to Thomas Schell, Jr. is now the home of the Sixth Borough?
(a) Australia.
(b) Antarctica.
(c) South America.
(d) Europe.

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

6. 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) Stonehenge.
(d) The Leaning Tower fo Pizza.

7. What object does Oskar discover when he enters Grandma's apartment in Alive and Alone?
(a) The old telephone.
(b) A typewriter.
(c) A bundle of letters.
(d) A photo album.

8. What is the only object Thomas retrieves in the rubble of Dresden?
(a) His copy of Ovid's Metamorphosis.
(b) His rifle.
(c) His typewriter.
(d) His favorit tie.

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

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

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

12. 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) An athlete.
(c) A poet.
(d) A waiter.

13. In Why I'm Not Where Your Are, how does Thomas Schell get from the airport to Grandma's building?
(a) He walks.
(b) He takes a taxi.
(c) He rents a car.
(d) He takes a shuttle bus.

14. How does Thomas Schell, Sr., describe his son's voice on the September 11th messages?
(a) Loving.
(b) Scared.
(c) Calm.
(d) Sad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oskar think is "grody" about the story of The Sixth Borough?

2. Where is Thomas Schell as he writes in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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

4. What does Oskar suspect Feliz is lying about Agnes Black in Happiness, Happiness?

5. What stylistically is noticeable about this chapter, Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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