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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Colin read over and over while alone in his room?
(a) His yearbook.
(b) A few poems he wrote for his last girlfriend.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A poem his last girlfriend wrote for him.

2. What was the name of the tour guides first and only boyfriend?
(a) Colin.
(b) She has never had a boyfriend.
(c) Hassan.
(d) Dewey.

3. How is the person in the grave the boys visit portrayed?
(a) As compassionate.
(b) As genius falling short.
(c) As nerdy.
(d) As brilliant.

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

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

6. In what State do Colin and Hassan stop for their first rest?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Kentucky.

7. What does Hassan take Colin to do at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Research at the library.
(b) Play baseball with some other friends.
(c) Look for a new girlfriend.
(d) Improve Colin's state of mind.

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

9. What does Colin think about as he is lying on the ground?
(a) Working in a convenience store.
(b) The night of graduation.
(c) Meeting his first Katherine.
(d) Becoming a tour guide.

10. What does Lindsey convince Colin to let her do?
(a) Hold his notebook for a few days.
(b) Go with him to the movies.
(c) Play him a song about lost love.
(d) Talk to Katherine XII.

11. What does Hassan do after waking?
(a) Writes in his journal.
(b) Prays.
(c) Takes a run.
(d) Calls his parents.

12. Where do Colin and Hassan stop to sleep?
(a) A campground.
(b) Hassan's aunt's house.
(c) A rest stop.
(d) A motel.

13. From where did Starnes retire?
(a) He was a self-employed farmer.
(b) The sheriff's office.
(c) He is a self-employed writer and still works.
(d) The factory in Gutshot.

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

15. What does Colin do as Hassan and Lindsey are playing?
(a) Works on his Katherines theorem.
(b) Writes on his theory of the middle of the Universe.
(c) Reads.
(d) Takes a nap.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Colin and Hassan do in their job that summer?

2. What does the tour guide see written in Colin's notebook?

3. What does Hassan do at the opening to Chapter 2?

4. How old was Colin when he started reading on his own?

5. What do Colin and Lindsey discuss when she checks on Colin?

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