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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his fourth message, what does Dad say the people in his tower are doing?
(a) They are bashing out windows.
(b) They are holding each other.
(c) They are jumping from the building.
(d) They are going to the roof.

2. Which best describes the location of the Sixth Borough?
(a) It sits adjacent to the Bronx.
(b) It is an island very close to Manhattan.
(c) It is a strip of land between Brooklyn and Queens.
(d) It is a penninsula jutting off of Brooklyn.

3. Where is Thomas Schell as he writes in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) Montevideo.
(b) Toronto.
(c) Dresden.
(d) The Bronx.

4. What does Oskar think is "grody" about the story of The Sixth Borough?
(a) The idea of a person swimming in the Hudson.
(b) The idea of two boys kissing each other.
(c) The idea of a boy pulling off a girl's skirt.
(d) The idea of a dog farting.

5. Which of the following is not evidence cited by Thomas Schell, Jr. of these existence of the Sixth Borough?
(a) Holes in the Central Park Zoo.
(b) A placard found on the bottom of the Hudson.
(c) The pH levels of the reservoir,
(d) Two names carved on a tree.

6. In Why I'm Not Where Your Are, how does Thomas Schell get from the airport to Grandma's building?
(a) He takes a shuttle bus.
(b) He walks.
(c) He rents a car.
(d) He takes a taxi.

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

8. What does Albert Black do for a living?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Events planner.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Actor.

9. In Happiness, Happiness, what child actor does Jimmy make sexually explicit comments about?
(a) Dakota Fanning.
(b) Haley Joel Osmond.
(c) Emma Watson.
(d) Jonathan Lipnicki.

10. What becomes difficult for childhood friends in The Sixth Borough?
(a) Playing catch between the boroughs.
(b) Singing in harmony.
(c) Tossing a paper airplane back and forth.
(d) Talking on a tin-can phone.

11. What famous Manhattan landmark used to be in the Sixth Borough?
(a) The Empire State Building.
(b) Carnegie Hall.
(c) Central Park.
(d) Washington Square.

12. Which of the following questions is not one that Oskar asks himself as he imagines a 9/11 type scenario in Alive and Alone?
(a) Would he jump or burn to death?
(b) Who would he call?
(c) Will he see it coming?
(d) What would he say to the last person he called?

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

14. Which of the following is a borough of New York that Oskar determines he has never visited at the beginning of The Sixth Borough?
(a) Queens.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) The Bronx.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Sixth Borough, what had the engineers brought in to deal with the island previously worked on?

2. Which two career paths does Allen Black imagine for his son in Happiness, Happiness?

3. Why does Oskar want to know how his father died?

4. How does Thomas Schell, Sr., describe his son's voice on the September 11th messages?

5. How does Thomas burn the skin off his hands in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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