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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, what news can Thomas not bring himself to tell Grandma about her father?
(a) He was collaborating with the Nazis.
(b) He was killed in the bombing.
(c) He left his wife to die in the flames.
(d) He commited suicide.

2. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, Thomas admits to Grandma that during their absence he had sex with whom?
(a) Men.
(b) Married women.
(c) No one.
(d) Prostitutes.

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?
(a) Many more will be born because of it.
(b) It is not so bad.
(c) That is unfathomable.
(d) He cannot think about tragedy anymore.

4. 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.

5. How does Thomas react to Anna's new that she is pregnant in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) He kisses her stomach.
(b) He proposes to her.
(c) He refuses to believe her.
(d) He leaves the room.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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) Picking up the receiver and hanging back up.
(c) Listening to the answering machine pick up.
(d) Answering the phone and crying.

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

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

15. What gift was Thomas given by Anna days before the bombings?
(a) A typewriter.
(b) A journal.
(c) A fedora.
(d) A kitten.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grandma refuse to share with Thomas in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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

3. How does Abby Black know William Black?

4. What does Thomas say to Anna to try to comfort her about her father in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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

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