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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Marathon Run of Lonesome Ernie, the Arkansas Traveler.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the older campers at the narrator's childhood summer camp called?
(a) Foxes.
(b) Wolves.
(c) Cheetahs.
(d) Beavers.

2. Why is Big Al unable to play in the big football game the day after the contest?
(a) He broke his leg.
(b) He dropped out of school.
(c) He is too ill.
(d) The game was cancelled.

3. What surprising things do the boys find as they pick up trash?
(a) Whiskey bottles.
(b) Cigarette butts.
(c) Beer cans.
(d) Condoms.

4. What does the sergeant make Dan Baxter do when he catches Dan smoking?
(a) Throw away the cigarettes in the outhouse.
(b) Cut up the cigarettes with a tomahawk.
(c) Drench the cigarettes in a bucket of water.
(d) Smoke the pack of cigarettes with a bucket over his head.

5. The narrator and his friends have a contest of eating _____________ laxatives.
(a) Boomo-Lax.
(b) Miralax.
(c) Correctol.
(d) Ex-Lax.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator imagine killing him as he tried to evade the tailgater?

2. The tendency of all New Jerseyites to long for home is called ____________________.

3. Why does Colonel Bullard berate the boys of the Mole Lodge?

4. What is the culminating event of the summer at camp?

5. What do the boys learn in forestcraft?

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