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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. How many survivors, including Thomas, are recovered by soldiers after the bombing in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

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

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

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

5. What does the interviewee at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness call for at the end of his story?
(a) The prosecution of Harry Truman.
(b) The rise of the revolutionary workers.
(c) Foreign aid to his country.
(d) The end of war.

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 Oskar suspect Feliz is lying about Agnes Black in Happiness, Happiness?

3. How did Agnes Black Die on September 11, 2001?

4. In Happiness, Happiness, what child actor does Jimmy make sexually explicit comments about?

5. Which of the following questions is not one that Oskar asks himself as he imagines a 9/11 type scenario in Alive and Alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stephen Hawking say to Oskar in A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem?

2. What does Oskar tell Thomas, Sr. over the course of Alive and Alone?

3. What does Dad relate about optimism to Oskar in the The Sixth Borough?

4. How does Oskar Schell meet Thomas, Sr. at the beginning of Alive and Alone?

5. What is revealed by the long jump at the beginning of The Sixth Borough?

6. What decision does Oskar make at the end of Alive and Alone?

7. What is happening in Dad's fourth message?

8. What is Oskar's attitude toward Dr. Fein?

9. Why does the trip to Agnes Black's apartment stir Oskar's curiosity in Happiness, Happiness?

10. In A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem, what does William Black reveal is the purpose of the key?

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