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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abby Black refuse to do for Oskar in The Only Animal?
(a) Let him take her picture.
(b) Kiss him.
(c) Give him cab fare home.
(d) Introduce him to the man in her apartment.

2. Why does Oskar excuse himself to A.R. Black's bathroom in Heavy Boots - Heavier Boots?
(a) He has to use the bathroom.
(b) He feels like he may cry.
(c) He likes the decor of the house.
(d) He is wants to call his mother.

3. What is significant about Grandma's Dresden and Thomas dreams in My Feelings?
(a) Oskar is in them.
(b) They only consist of brief snapshots.
(c) They happen in reverse.
(d) She experiences them outside her body.

4. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, Thomas says he would give anything never to think of what again?
(a) Dresden.
(b) America.
(c) His sculptures.
(d) Anna.

5. Where in New York is the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are when he meets his future wife?
(a) Central Park.
(b) The Manhattan Bridge.
(c) 59th and Lexington.
(d) The Columbian Bakery.

Short Answer Questions

1. During their conversation in My Feelings, what does Mom do for Grandma for the first time?

2. Which of the following functions is not one that the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are uses his old books for?

3. Why has Oskar never met his grandfather?

4. Where is Mom when Oskar falls asleep on the night of September 11, 2001?

5. Oskar's father often tells him that he is too smart for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does married life become a series of negotiations for Grandma and Thomas Schell, Sr. in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

2. Describe the phone call between Mom and Grandma in My Feelings.

3. What happens to Oskar when he arrives home on September 11, 2001?

4. What is A.R. Black's card system?

5. What did Oskar Schell do with the phone after his father's call on September 11, 2001?

6. Describe Thomas Schell's first meeting with his future wife?

7. How does Thomas Schell's silence affect his living situation?

8. What does Grandma do the day before Dresden is bombed?

9. What is Thomas Schell doing when he begins to lose his words?

10. How does Grandma know that Thomas is gone at the end of My Feelings?

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