View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Why I'm Not Where You Are, what news can Thomas not bring himself to tell Grandma about her father?
(a) He was killed in the bombing.
(b) He left his wife to die in the flames.
(c) He commited suicide.
(d) He was collaborating with the Nazis.

3. How does Thomas burn the skin off his hands in Why I'm Not Where You Are?
(a) He runs through a curtain of fire.
(b) He touches a hot doorknob.
(c) He grabs hold of a smothering corpse.
(d) He falls into a pubble of burning fuel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Abby Black know William Black?

2. In Why I'm Not Where Your Are, how does Thomas Schell get from the airport to Grandma's building?

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

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

5. How long does Thomas later learn the first bombing of Dresden lasted?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is revealed by the long jump at the beginning of The Sixth Borough?

4. What does Dad relate about optimism to Oskar in the The Sixth Borough?

5. Describe Thomas's experience during the bombing of Dresden.

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

7. How does Oskar overcome a phobia in Alive and Alone?

8. 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?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,074 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample