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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 left his wife to die in the flames.
(c) He was killed in the bombing.
(d) He commited suicide.

5. What is the only object Thomas retrieves in the rubble of Dresden?
(a) His copy of Ovid's Metamorphosis.
(b) His typewriter.
(c) His rifle.
(d) His favorit tie.

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

7. Why is Oskar nervous about meeting Ruth Black?
(a) He hasn't gone alone to an apartment in some time.
(b) She lives way out in Staten Island.
(c) She lives atop a skyscraper.
(d) He worries he does not look his best.

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

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

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

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 runs through a curtain of fire.
(c) He falls into a pubble of burning fuel.
(d) He grabs hold of a smothering corpse.

12. In Why I'm Not Where Your Are, how does Thomas Schell get from the airport to Grandma's building?
(a) He walks.
(b) He rents a car.
(c) He takes a taxi.
(d) He takes a shuttle bus.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Thomas Schell, Sr., describe his son's voice on the September 11th messages?

2. On what floor of the Empire State Building did a plane crash in 1945?

3. How long does Thomas later learn the first bombing of Dresden lasted?

4. What is Thomas Schell order to do at the zoo in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

5. Which direction direction does the long jumper run across Manhattan in preparation for his jump to the Sixth Borough?

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