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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. On what floor of the Empire State Building did a plane crash in 1945?
(a) 58th.
(b) 79th.
(c) 33rd.
(d) 95th.

2. What event does interviewee at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness describe?
(a) The execution of Mussolini.
(b) The liberation of Dachau.
(c) The firebombing of Dresden.
(d) The bombing of Hiroshima.

3. What is the only reason Grandma comes into Thomas's guest room the first two months that he is there?
(a) To clean.
(b) To make love.
(c) To collect rent.
(d) To yell at him.

4. Which two career paths does Allen Black imagine for his son in Happiness, Happiness?
(a) Famous actor or restauranteur.
(b) Architect or stock trader.
(c) Basketball star or senator.
(d) Brain surgeon or lawyer.

5. In his fourth message, what does Dad say the people in his tower are doing?
(a) They are going to the roof.
(b) They are holding each other.
(c) They are bashing out windows.
(d) They are jumping from the building.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem, what does Oskar recall doing when dad calls on September 11, 2001?

3. Where is Thomas Schell as he writes in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

4. What does the interviewee at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness call for at the end of his story?

5. Which of the Blacks that Oskar visited informed his mom of the search?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does the sixth borough's drift affect a boy and girl in the story?

7. What does Thomas learn immediately before the bombing of Dresden begins?

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

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

10. What can Thomas not bring himself to tell Grandma at the end of Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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