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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Sixth Borough.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How fast is the Sixth Borough drifting away from New York in the story?
(a) Half a mile a year.
(b) 1 meter a year.
(c) 1 millimeter a year.
(d) 1 foot a year.

2. Why is the coffin that Oskar and his mother bury in What The? empty?
(a) Oskar's father requested this.
(b) Oskar's father has been cremated.
(c) Oskar's body is being held by the police.
(d) Oskar's father's body was never found.

3. How long is the letter that Grandma's own grandmother gives her in My Feelings?
(a) 1 sentence long.
(b) 1 word long.
(c) 67 pages long.
(d) 1 page long.

4. What does Abby Black refuse to do for Oskar in The Only Animal?
(a) Give him cab fare home.
(b) Let him take her picture.
(c) Kiss him.
(d) Introduce him to the man in her apartment.

5. What does Mom ask Grandma to do when she calls her in My Feelings?
(a) Watch Oskar.
(b) Close the jewelry store.
(c) Try to contact Thomas, Jr.
(d) Put up posters with her son's picture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Albert Black do for a living?

2. What request does the woman in Why I'm Not Where You Are make of the narrator?

3. What does Oskar think is "grody" about the story of The Sixth Borough?

4. What famous person writes Oskar Schell in Googolplex?

5. In My Feelings, Thomas is unable to answer what he and Grandma are, between which two things?

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