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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. Which of the following is not something that Thomas Schell takes pictures of in My Feelings?
(a) The sky.
(b) The undersides of bookshelves.
(c) Doorknobs.
(d) Grandma.

2. What lie does Oskar Schell tell Abby Black in The Only Animal?
(a) He is 14.
(b) He has diabetes.
(c) He is selling magazine subscriptions.
(d) He is her nephew.

3. In Googolplex, what does Oskar invent to go under his pillow?
(a) A dictaphone.
(b) A fence.
(c) A time radio.
(d) A drain.

4. What do Grandma and Thomas call the places in their apartment where they can be alone?
(a) Other places.
(b) Safe places.
(c) Blue places.
(d) Nothing places.

5. In The Only Animal, what does Oskar say elephants may have?
(a) Houses.
(b) ESP.
(c) Elections.
(d) Emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are do when he runs out of pages while talking to someone?

2. Where does Oskar decide he wants to keep everything he loves at the end of Googolplex?

3. Who is the only character to attend every performance of Hamlet in Heavy Boots - Heavier Boots?

4. What does Thomas tell Grandma he has not done since coming to America in My Feelings?

5. How does Oskar's mother say she cries in Heavy Boots-Heavier Boots?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Grandma find Oskar in My Feelings?

2. How does Grandma convince Thomas to marry her in My Feelings?

3. What do Abby Black and Oskar Schell talk about in The Only Animal?

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

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

6. Describe Thomas's decision to leave Grandma in Why I'm Not Where You Are.

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

8. When do Anna and Thomas discover they love each other in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

9. How does Grandma write her memoirs in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

10. What ideas does Oskar Schell come up with in the beginning of What The?

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