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

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

3. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, what news can Thomas not bring himself to tell Grandma about her father?
(a) He was killed in the bombing.
(b) He left his wife to die in the flames.
(c) He was collaborating with the Nazis.
(d) He commited suicide.

4. In his letter in A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem, what does Stephen Hawking admit wishing that he could be?
(a) An actor.
(b) A waiter.
(c) An athlete.
(d) A poet.

5. Why does A.R. Black have to speak to the woman at Agnes Black's building for Oskar?
(a) She doesn't talk to children.
(b) She speaks Spanish.
(c) She doen't want to bend down to listen.
(d) She thinks A.R. is cute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does interviewee at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness describe?

2. What does Grandma refuse to share with Thomas in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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

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

5. According to Grandma in Why I'm Not Where You Are, why did Thomas, Jr. take over the jewelry store?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does does Thomas tell his son about his and and his former wife's location at the beginning Why I'm Not Where You Are?

4. What major item movement happens between the sixth borough and and Manhattan as it drifts off?

5. Describe Thomas's experience during the bombing of Dresden.

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

7. How does Thomas, Sr. discover he has a son in Why I'm Not where You Are?

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

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

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

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