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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. What object does Oskar discover when he enters Grandma's apartment in Alive and Alone?
(a) A bundle of letters.
(b) A photo album.
(c) The old telephone.
(d) A typewriter.

2. What noises do the students make at the end of Oskar's presentation in Happiness, Happiness?
(a) Fart sounds.
(b) Boos.
(c) Barfing noises.
(d) Coughs.

3. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, Thomas admits to Grandma that during their absence he had sex with whom?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Married women.
(c) Men.
(d) No one.

4. What does Thomas say to Anna to try to comfort her about her father in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) He will talk to her father.
(b) He wants to marry her.
(c) Her father is a silly fool.
(d) The war will be over soon.

5. How is a famous landmark moved from the Sixth Borough to Manhattan?
(a) It is lifted by helicoptors.
(b) It is driven by a thousand pickup trucks.
(c) It is carried across the six Staten Island Ferries.
(d) It is dragged by large hooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What label does Oskar apply to himself during The Sixth Borough?

2. How does Thomas react to Anna's new that she is pregnant in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

3. What becomes difficult for childhood friends in The Sixth Borough?

4. What famous Manhattan landmark used to be in the Sixth Borough?

5. How fast is the Sixth Borough drifting away from New York in the story?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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