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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What noises do the students make at the end of Oskar's presentation in Happiness, Happiness?
(a) Boos.
(b) Coughs.
(c) Fart sounds.
(d) Barfing noises.

4. 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.

5. What becomes difficult for childhood friends in The Sixth Borough?
(a) Singing in harmony.
(b) Talking on a tin-can phone.
(c) Tossing a paper airplane back and forth.
(d) Playing catch between the boroughs.

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

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

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

9. How did Agnes Black Die on September 11, 2001?
(a) She worked in one of the towers.
(b) She was hit by debris.
(c) She was in one of the planes.
(d) She committed suicide.

10. In his letter in A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem, what does Stephen Hawking admit wishing that he could be?
(a) A waiter.
(b) A poet.
(c) An actor.
(d) An athlete.

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

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

13. How does Oskar respond to A.R. Black's announcement that he is quitting the search?
(a) He cries.
(b) He hugs him.
(c) He shouts a curse word at him.
(d) He shakes his hand.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What label does Oskar apply to himself during The Sixth Borough?

5. Which famous person declines to look at a letter of recommendation in Happiness, Happiness?

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