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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 does Oskar respond to A.R. Black's announcement that he is quitting the search?
(a) He cries.
(b) He shouts a curse word at him.
(c) He hugs him.
(d) He shakes his hand.

2. What type of lock does the key go with?
(a) A large chest.
(b) A safety deposit box.
(c) A door.
(d) An old automobile.

3. How does Thomas burn the skin off his hands in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) He grabs hold of a smothering corpse.
(b) He runs through a curtain of fire.
(c) He falls into a pubble of burning fuel.
(d) He touches a hot doorknob.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not evidence cited by Thomas Schell, Jr. of these existence of the Sixth Borough?

2. What does Thomas say to Anna to try to comfort her about her father in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

3. What is the only object Thomas retrieves in the rubble of Dresden?

4. Which of the following is a borough of New York that Oskar determines he has never visited at the beginning of The Sixth Borough?

5. What is Thomas Schell order to do at the zoo in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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