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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 does the narrator think as he is stalled in this chapter?
(a) What he is going to have for dinner.
(b) How much beer he has at home.
(c) How each generation attacks the next.
(d) How much his head hurts.

2. What does Umbaugh offer to do after the contest?
(a) Buy breakfast for his friends.
(b) Do his friends' laundry.
(c) Wash the narrator's car.
(d) Take an exam for Big Al.

3. What do the boys fear as they try to get to sleep?
(a) A Thing in the Woods.
(b) An ax murderer.
(c) Pranks from the Beavers.
(d) Thunder dna lightning.

4. What does the narrator consider the place he is stranded?
(a) Purgatory.
(b) Limbo.
(c) Hell.
(d) Heaven.

5. What does Kissel make in leathercraft?
(a) A batting glove.
(b) A wallet.
(c) A belt.
(d) A shoulder holster for his father's bourbon bottle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the bus drive to camp?

2. The narrator could tell that the tailgater was eating _________________.

3. What are the older campers at the narrator's childhood summer camp called?

4. How does the narrator view the foibles of mankind in his corner of the world?

5. What could the narrator tell about the tailgater?

(see the answer key)

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