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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hollis want Hassan and Colin to do the next day?
(a) Groom the horses.
(b) Fix one of the machines in the string factory.
(c) Interview people and ask only four questions.
(d) Take the dog for a run.

2. Who asked Colin if he wants to be her boyfriend?
(a) Katherine I.
(b) No one.
(c) A girl named Mary.
(d) The tour guide.

3. How many employees do Hassan and Colin interview at the plant that day?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 27.

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

5. What does Colin's father say about Colin's last girlfriend?
(a) She is at the front door.
(b) She is not worth grieving over.
(c) She called Colin's father's cell phone.
(d) They met her at the hot dog stand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Katherine?

2. What happens as Colin is walking behind the convenience store?

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

4. Where does the psychologist work that Colin's parents consult?

5. What does Colin remember about his third grade tutor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is in the convenience store when Colin and Hassan return from the grave and what does the person say to Colin?

2. When did Colin meet Hassan and to what does Colin relate most of his thoughts?

3. Where does Lindsey go after interviewing Starnes?

4. What approach do Hassan and Colin use on Hassan's father to gain permission for the trip?

5. Whose grave is advertised when Colin and Hassan decide to exit off the interstate?

6. What are Colin and Hassan supposed to do that day and what do they accomplish?

7. Why does Colin call his mother?

8. What is the notebook that Colin sketches in while waiting for the tour guide to return?

9. What does Colin overhear Hassan and Lindsey talking about and what do the three young people do that evening?

10. Where does the tour of the famous grave begin and who gives the tour?

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