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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lindsey teach Colin what she teaches him?
(a) Just to give him an experience he's never had.
(b) So he is not embarrassed the next weekend.
(c) He is curious about the gears.
(d) So he can hang a swing over the creek for her.

2. Who is beaten up in the graveyard?
(a) Lindsey and three others.
(b) Lindsey's boyfriend.
(c) Katrina.
(d) No one.

3. What does Lindsey say they could do instead of stopping at their next choice of eating places?
(a) Go back and she'll cook at home.
(b) Go take Mabel out to visit her husband's grave.
(c) Stop in the middle of the road and be.
(d) Just keep going.

4. Why is Hollis burying the string?
(a) It is the cheapest way to dispose of it.
(b) It was contaminated.
(c) To keep from firing workers.
(d) She is not burying string.

5. Where does Lindsey take Colin that is a secret?
(a) To a wild bee hive full of honey.
(b) To see some fox cubs.
(c) A cave.
(d) To see a building that Hollis' boyfriend is constructing.

6. What is the topic of conversation that Colin and Lindsey over hear Hollis having?
(a) Lindsey's college prospects.
(b) The factory's tax situation.
(c) Colin.
(d) About disposing of some trash.

7. Who is Hollis talking to when Colin and Lindsey arrive back at Lindsey's house?
(a) Hassan.
(b) Roy.
(c) Eric.
(d) Herself.

8. Where do Hassan and Colin decide to go eat breakfast?
(a) Downstairs in the kitchen.
(b) The drugstore counter.
(c) McDonalds.
(d) Hardee's.

9. What error does Lindsey think Colin is making in his theorem?
(a) Too much emphasis on the girl and not on Colin.
(b) Not enough variables.
(c) Too much emphasis on name.
(d) Too many variables.

10. What does Lindsey teach Colin how to do?
(a) Shoot a bow.
(b) Shoot a shotgun.
(c) Tie several types of knots.
(d) Run the tractor.

11. What does Lindsey think she knows how to fix?
(a) Hollis' need to control.
(b) Colin's shyness.
(c) Colin's Katherine theorem.
(d) Hassan's reluctance to stay there longer.

12. What do Colin and Hassan check out upon first waking in Chapter 17?
(a) Each other's wounds from the fight the day before.
(b) If Lindsey's boyfriend has come by to apologize.
(c) Whether Lindsey is alive.
(d) If Katrina has called Hassan as she said she would.

13. Why doesn't Colin end up going out on a date with Marie in his junior year?
(a) Katherine I asks him to help her.
(b) Marie changes her mind.
(c) Colin gets ill.
(d) Marie gets ill.

14. When does Colin get up on Saturday morning?
(a) Around 10 in the morning.
(b) 4:30 in the morning.
(c) Just about noon.
(d) 6:30 a.m.

15. What does Hassan say he has done for the next semester?
(a) Gotten a job in the bookstore at the community college.
(b) Enrolled in two college courses.
(c) Applied to a school in California.
(d) Asked his aunt to live with her family and go to school there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What wakes Colin up on Thursday morning?

2. What does Colin wake to a week later?

3. Where does Colin really go?

4. What does Colin continue to do in Chapter 13?

5. Why do Colin and Hassan tell the leader to go on without them?

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