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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 does Grandma refuse to share with Thomas in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) Her money.
(b) Oskar.
(c) Her anger.
(d) Her body.

2. How long does Thomas later learn the first bombing of Dresden lasted?
(a) Two hours.
(b) One hour.
(c) Less than half an hour.
(d) More than six hours.

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

4. Which direction direction does the long jumper run across Manhattan in preparation for his jump to the Sixth Borough?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) West.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Abby Black know William Black?

2. Why is Oskar particularly compelled by the renter when they meet in Alive and Alone?

3. What stylistically is noticeable about this chapter, Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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

5. What is the only reason Grandma comes into Thomas's guest room the first two months that he is there?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the living arrangement between Grandma and Thomas in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. How does Oskar's presentation go at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness?

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

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

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