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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the interviewee at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness call for at the end of his story?
(a) The rise of the revolutionary workers.
(b) The prosecution of Harry Truman.
(c) Foreign aid to his country.
(d) The end of war.

2. How long does Thomas later learn the first bombing of Dresden lasted?
(a) One hour.
(b) More than six hours.
(c) Two hours.
(d) Less than half an hour.

3. In The Sixth Borough, what had the engineers brought in to deal with the island previously worked on?
(a) The San Andreas Fault.
(b) The Leaning Tower fo Pizza.
(c) The city of Atlantis.
(d) Stonehenge.

4. What type of lock does the key go with?
(a) An old automobile.
(b) A safety deposit box.
(c) A large chest.
(d) A door.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the Blacks that Oskar visited informed his mom of the search?

2. What natural occurrence does Ruth Black talk about in Alive and Alone?

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

4. What is Thomas Schell order to do at the zoo in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What major item movement happens between the sixth borough and and Manhattan as it drifts off?

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

3. What does Stephen Hawking say to Oskar in A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem?

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

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

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

7. What decision does Oskar make at the end of Alive and Alone?

8. Why does the trip to Agnes Black's apartment stir Oskar's curiosity in Happiness, Happiness?

9. How does Oskar's presentation go at the beginning of Happiness, Happiness?

10. What does Oskar tell Thomas, Sr. over the course of Alive and Alone?

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