1. When the family finally arrives at their summer trip destination, what obstacles do they immediately encounter?
(a) The Old Man left his wallet at the gas station, and Mother forgot the bug spray.
(b) A bear encounter and a cabin with no door.
(c) The resort and several others nearby are completely full.
(d) Rain and a power outage.

2. During the family's road trip to Michigan, why does Mother suddenly insist that the Old Man stop the car?
(a) The contents of the car have shifted and she's getting squished by supplies.
(b) She needs to check on the narrator, who looks overheated and dehydrated.
(c) She knows Randy is about to throw up.
(d) They haven't had a bathroom stop in six hours.

3. The winner of the spinning top battle between Farkas and the narrator could very well do what?
(a) Demand lunch money from the kids gathered there.
(b) Change life at Warren G. Harding School.
(c) Beat up the loser.
(d) Intimidate the other kids all the way through high school.

4. How does the narrator's childhood experience at the County Fair compare to a movie he watches when he's an adult that portrays a State Fair set in Indiana?
(a) The County Fair wasn't as exciting as the State Fair in the movie.
(b) His experience is identical to the movie.
(c) His experience is completely different from the movie.
(d) The food's exactly the same, but he remembers wilder rides.

5. At what point does the narrator realize they are halfway to their Michigan destination?
(a) When Randy throws up, because he does this every year at the halfway mark.
(b) After they've been driving for six hours without stopping.
(c) When the contents of the car have shifted so much he can no longer move.
(d) After he almost faints from dehydration and heat exhaustion.