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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has just happened to Colin?
(a) He's just been dumped by his girlfriend.
(b) He was harassed by some bullies.
(c) He was just scared by a large shark.
(d) His teacher just woke him by slamming a book on his desk.

2. For how many years has Starnes worked at the same place?
(a) 33.
(b) Just a couple months.
(c) 60.
(d) 10.

3. For how long has Starnes lived in Gutshot?
(a) A few months.
(b) A few years.
(c) His whole life.
(d) Since he was forty-one.

4. What does Hollis invite the boys to do?
(a) Try to solve a puzzle she gives them.
(b) Have dinner at her house.
(c) Stay at their farm for a couple weeks.
(d) Participate in a contest at the local fair.

5. When does the latest Katherine break up with Colin?
(a) A week before the end of the current school year.
(b) Two days after the end of the current school year.
(c) Graduation night.
(d) At a party two weeks after graduation.

6. What does Hassan think is the answer to Colin's problems?
(a) A more varied workout.
(b) A belief in God.
(c) A unique invention.
(d) A girlfriend with another name.

7. How many times has this same event occurred to Colin in the past?
(a) 13.
(b) 0.
(c) 5.
(d) 19.

8. What does the tour guide see written in Colin's notebook?
(a) The words "Ipso facto."
(b) K-19.
(c) A poem written in German.
(d) A picture of Katherine I.

9. What does Colin hear as he wakes the next morning?
(a) A cow mooing.
(b) A peacock yelling.
(c) A rooster crowing.
(d) A horse neighing.

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

11. Whose grave do Colin and Hassan decide to stop at?
(a) Margaret Mitchell.
(b) Flannery O'Connor.
(c) Faulkner.
(d) Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

12. What does Colin say genius is?
(a) An overrated idea.
(b) As genius does.
(c) The drive for fulfillment.
(d) The need to approval.

13. Why does Hollis recognize Colin?
(a) From a game show.
(b) From a book Colin wrote.
(c) From a video game Colin wrote.
(d) She does not recognize Colin.

14. What town does Hollis want to research its history?
(a) Gutshot.
(b) Brady.
(c) Gaspar.
(d) Providence.

15. Why do the boys stop at a convenience store?
(a) To ask directions to the cemetery.
(b) They see an advertisement for free gas.
(c) They see an advertisement for a free map.
(d) It is where the start of the grave is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Hassan and Lindsey doing when Colin joins them?

2. What does Colin tell Hassan?

3. At what age does Colin start elementary school?

4. What does Colin overhear Hassan and Lindsey discussing?

5. Why does Colin believe he is past the prime of his life?

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