Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Oskar never met his grandfather?

2. What phrase does Thomas Schell point to over and over as he and Grandma cry in My Feelings?

3. What does Grandma regularly ask Thomas Schell to pick up at the airport for her?

4. What role does Oskar play in Hamlet?

5. Who did the killer in My Feelings murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Oskar's first stop on his quest.

2. What happens in the airport in My Feelings?

3. What did Oskar Schell do with the phone after his father's call on September 11, 2001?

4. How does Oskar Schell fare in his first jujitsu class?

5. Describe Oscar's interplay with Gerald Thompson in What The?

6. How does Grandma find Oskar in My Feelings?

7. How does married life become a series of negotiations for Grandma and Thomas Schell, Sr. in Why I'm Not Where You Are?

8. What does Grandma do the day before Dresden is bombed?

9. When does Grandma first see Thomas in Dresden?

10. What ideas does Oskar Schell come up with in the beginning of What The?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the marriage between Grandma and Thomas Schell, Sr. How do they find their way into each other's lives and to what extent does the tragedy of Dresden's demise play a central role in bringing them together? Chart the progression of their relationship in America form reconnection to courtship and through their marriage. How does the development of rules lead to the eventual end of their marriage? What happens when he returns to her?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the relationship between Grandma and her sister Anna. Focus primarily on the period immediately before the bombing of Dresden. How is one girl experiencing sexuality at the same time as another is experiencing an innocent curiosity about sexually? How are they both bound to Thomas Schell, Sr. before the bombing happens? To what extent is Anna's death instrumental in bringing Grandma and Thomas together in America?

Essay Topic 3

The end of the novel is a strangely happy one, though it does not contain anything that concretely resolves the conflicts of the novel. Write an essay about the ending of Oskar's narrative and what it means to him and to the reader:

Part 1) What is the resolution of the quest of the key? Discuss why William Black would need the key and why Dad had it in a vase. Does this resolution, in the end, offer anything illuminating to Oskar Schell regarding his father? How was the journey to this resolution more important than the destination?

Part 2) What understand do Oskar and his mother reach in the final chapter of the novel? What single request does he make of her and what concession does he give regarding her happiness? Does she make any concrete promises him regarding the future?

Part 3) Discuss the fantasy that ends the novel. What alternate reality does Oskar create for his father, beginning with his picture in the Stuff That Happened to Me book? How does this provide the novel with a bittersweet happy ending?

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