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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. Who is the only character to attend every performance of Hamlet in Heavy Boots - Heavier Boots?
(a) Oskar's Mother.
(b) Stan.
(c) Abby Black.
(d) Grandma.

2. What question does Oskar ask his mother about Ron in Googolplex?
(a) If she is sleeping with him.
(b) If he is Jewish.
(c) If his father knew him.
(d) If she loves him.

3. Who wrote Oskar's favorite book?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Stephen Hawking.
(c) Michael Crichton.
(d) Honore de Balzac.

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

5. Which Beatles song does Oskar recall his father whistling?
(a) Something.
(b) Bungalo Bill.
(c) I Am the Walrus.
(d) Let It Be.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, Thomas says he would give anything never to think of what again?

3. Who in Grandma's family begins a mental collapse as the war approaches?

4. What does Thomas say he is going to do when he leaves the apartment in My Feelings?

5. Which of the following is the first word that the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are loses?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What two ways does Oskar communicate with Grandma in Googolplex?

3. Describe Oscar's interplay with Gerald Thompson in What The?

4. How does Grandma find Oskar in My Feelings?

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

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

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

8. How do the Blacks of chapters past reappear in this chapter?

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

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

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