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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of lock does the key go with?
(a) A door.
(b) A large chest.
(c) A safety deposit box.
(d) An old automobile.

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) Picking up the receiver and hanging back up.
(c) Listening to the answering machine pick up.
(d) Leaving the room.

3. In his fourth message, what does Dad say the people in his tower are doing?
(a) They are bashing out windows.
(b) They are holding each other.
(c) They are going to the roof.
(d) They are jumping from the building.

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

5. How long does Thomas later learn the first bombing of Dresden lasted?
(a) Two hours.
(b) One hour.
(c) More than six hours.
(d) Less than half an hour.

6. How long does A.R. help in the search before giving up in Alive and Alone?
(a) 15 days.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 10 weeks.
(d) 2 years.

7. How does Thomas burn the skin off his hands in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) He runs through a curtain of fire.
(b) He touches a hot doorknob.
(c) He grabs hold of a smothering corpse.
(d) He falls into a pubble of burning fuel.

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

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

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

11. What does Thomas say to Anna to try to comfort her about her father in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) He wants to marry her.
(b) He will talk to her father.
(c) Her father is a silly fool.
(d) The war will be over soon.

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

13. What label does Oskar apply to himself during The Sixth Borough?
(a) Optimist.
(b) Pacifist.
(c) Manhattanite.
(d) Scientist.

14. 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 penninsula jutting off of Brooklyn.
(d) It is a strip of land between Brooklyn and Queens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Thomas react to Anna's new that she is pregnant in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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

3. 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?

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

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