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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oskar always say in response to Grandma calling his name?
(a) Bless you.
(b) I love you.
(c) Grandma.
(d) I'm okay.

2. Who is the man in Abby Black's Village apartment?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her boyfriend.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

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

4. Oskar's father often tells him that he is too smart for what?
(a) School.
(b) Retail.
(c) This planet.
(d) America.

5. Why is Oskall Shell home alone on September 11, 2001?
(a) He is let out of school early.
(b) It is an in-service day.
(c) He is home sick.
(d) He sneaks out of school.

6. To whom is Thomas writing Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) Anna.
(b) Oskar.
(c) Grandma.
(d) His unborn son.

7. What adjective does Oskar Schell use to describe September 11, 2001?
(a) Smoky.
(b) Sad.
(c) Long.
(d) Worst.

8. What request does Grandma make of her sister Anna in My Feelings?
(a) She wants her to leave Dresden forever.
(b) She wants her to teach her how to waltz.
(c) She wants to watch her kiss Thomas.
(d) She wants her to a dress.

9. Where does Oskar decide he wants to keep everything he loves at the end of Googolplex?
(a) In a giant pocket.
(b) Under his bed.
(c) In a safe.
(d) In heaven.

10. What role does Oskar play in Hamlet?
(a) Laertes.
(b) Hamlet's father.
(c) Yorick.
(d) Horacio.

11. At the beginning of The Only Animal, Oskar remembers his dad explain how he could change what gargantuan natural formation?
(a) The Sahara Desert.
(b) The Polar Icecaps.
(c) The Alps.
(d) The Grand Canyon.

12. What affliction does A.R. Black have?
(a) He has seizures.
(b) He is blind.
(c) He cannot walk.
(d) He is deaf.

13. What give's Grandma meaning in life after September 11, 2001?
(a) Oskar's presence.
(b) Her son's widow's calls.
(c) The hope her son might be alive.
(d) The hope that her husband may return.

14. What do the guard, Grandma's uncle, and the killer in My Feelings have in common?
(a) They have both lost wives.
(b) They are both bald.
(c) They are brothers.
(d) Neither believe in god.

15. What idea does Grandma have for her and Thomas's relationship in My Feelings?
(a) They should live in the airport.
(b) They should only live together half the year.
(c) They should never see each other again.
(d) They should return to Dresden.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many messages from his father does Oskar Schell find on his family's answering machine in What The?

2. According to Thomas in Why I'm Not Where You Are, what increased in number as he and Grandma's marriage developed?

3. What does Grandma's life story consist of in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

4. What is the last word that the narrator of Why I'm Not Where You Are is able to speak?

5. On what gift to his mother does Oskar leave a coded form of his father's last message in Googolplex?

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