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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What give's Grandma meaning in life after September 11, 2001?

2. What does Grandma say she wishes she could do near the end of My Feelings?

3. What does Grandma notice about Thomas's clothes in My Feelings?

4. Which of the following is not an adjective that Anna uses to describe kissing in My Feelings?

5. Where do Anna and Thomas first make love in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two ways does Oskar communicate with Grandma in Googolplex?

2. How do the Blacks of chapters past reappear in this chapter?

3. How does Grandma write her memoirs in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

4. How does Grandma convince Thomas to marry her in My Feelings?

5. Why does Grandma get samples of letters as a child in My Feelings?

6. What is the purpose of the drain system Oskar imagines in Googolplex?

7. What cautionary story does Grandma's own grandmother tell in her letter in My Feelings?

8. What happens to Oskar when he arrives home on September 11, 2001?

9. Describe Oscar's interplay with Gerald Thompson in What The?

10. Describe Thomas Schell's first meeting with his future wife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the character of Grandma. To what extent is she portrayed as woman who beholds all the pain of the world and continues to love? Who does she lose over the course of the novel, and how does she lose each of these loved ones? What fear does this create in her? Discuss in a paragraph how her relationship with Oskar allows her to continue on in the face of heartbreak and loneliness. Who returns to her in the end of the novel, and how does she react?

Essay Topic 2

The three central characters of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close have all lost someone key to their lives and are painfully lost and isolated as a result. Write an essay about each of their isolation. What is missing from their lives since the loss? How do they deal with this pain on a day to day basis, and what emotions pervade as a result? Who attempts to reach out to them and how do they respond?

Part 1) Thomas Schell, Sr.

Part 2) Grandma.

Part 3) Oskar Schell.

Essay Topic 3

Oskar Schell is a fearful child, and his fears can fall into two camps that are real and imagined. Write an essay discussing these two types of fear and how they manifest themselves in the novel. For example, how do Dr. Fein and Jimmy represent a very real, concrete adversity to Oskar? What genuine concerns for his life do they present? Conversely, discuss the imagined dangers that haunt Oskar throughout the novel. From where do these fears derive and how do they affect his daily life?

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