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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. Where is Thomas Schell as he writes in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) Toronto.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Dresden.
(d) Montevideo.

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) Stonehenge.
(c) The Leaning Tower fo Pizza.
(d) The city of Atlantis.

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

8. How many survivors, including Thomas, are recovered by soldiers after the bombing in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

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

10. 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) What would he say to the last person he called?
(c) Will he see it coming?
(d) Would he jump or burn to death?

11. Which of the following is a borough of New York that Oskar determines he has never visited at the beginning of The Sixth Borough?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Queens.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Brooklyn.

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

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

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

15. What does Oskar suspect Feliz is lying about Agnes Black in Happiness, Happiness?
(a) She is dead.
(b) She has no children.
(c) They lived in the same building.
(d) She did not know his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, Thomas admits to Grandma that during their absence he had sex with whom?

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

3. How does Oskar respond to A.R. Black's announcement that he is quitting the search?

4. Why does Oskar want to know how his father died?

5. What is the only object Thomas retrieves in the rubble of Dresden?

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