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

2. What natural occurrence does Ruth Black talk about in Alive and Alone?
(a) St. Elmo's Fire.
(b) Lunar eclipses.
(c) Static storms.
(d) Solar flares.

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

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

5. 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 millimeter a year.
(d) 1 foot a year.

6. What is Thomas Schell order to do at the zoo in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) Kill carnivorous animal.
(b) Protect a school group.
(c) Prepare fatted animals as food.
(d) Burn official papers.

7. 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) Brooklyn.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Queens.

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

9. 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 make money.
(c) He wanted to get into the diamond business.
(d) He had no other talents.

10. Why can Oskar not speak to A.R. Black at the beginning of A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem?
(a) He refuses to talk to Oskar.
(b) He has died.
(c) He has taken of his hearing aids permanently.
(d) He has moved out.

11. 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 refuses to believe her.
(c) He leaves the room.
(d) He proposes to her.

12. 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) He cannot think about tragedy anymore.
(d) That is unfathomable.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oskar decide to do in the final moment of Alive and Alone?

2. Whose hand does Oskar squeeze on his way to the top of the Empire State Building in Alive and Alone?

3. What is the only reason Grandma comes into Thomas's guest room the first two months that he is there?

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

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

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