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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Hollis?
(a) Another clerk in the convenience store.
(b) Another tourist visiting the gravesite.
(c) A hitchhiker Colin and Hassan pick up.
(d) The store clerk's mother.

2. Where does Lindsey take Colin and Hassan on their first day of working?
(a) The barn.
(b) The mechanical room.
(c) Old man Starnes' house.
(d) They old balers.

3. What is Colin reminded of by the smell at the first person's house that the three young people go to for interviews?
(a) His grandmother's house.
(b) Katherine IXI's basement.
(c) His first ride in a car.
(d) The abandoned home of a wealthy eccentric man in Colin's hometown.

4. What role does the clerk at the convenient store play besides as cashier?
(a) Mechanic.
(b) Tour guide.
(c) Gas pumper.
(d) Cook.

5. What does Hassan want when he first wakes?
(a) To know what time it is.
(b) Toothpaste.
(c) A donut.
(d) Coffee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about the fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare"?

2. What does Colin say genius is?

3. What theorem is Colin developing?

4. What does Colin hear as he wakes the next morning?

5. Where do Colin and Hassan stop to sleep?

(see the answer key)

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