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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the persons doing in the graveyard?
(a) Having sex.
(b) Planting flowers on a couple graves.
(c) Cleaning a headstone.
(d) Looking for a pig that was wounded.

2. Why do Colin and Hassan use some chewing tobacco?
(a) To look tough in front of the other guys.
(b) They want to experience the full nuances of the hunt.
(c) On their hornet stings.
(d) In a spitting contest.

3. To what status does Colin refer when speaking to Hassan?
(a) Colin's status as a track star.
(b) Colin's status as an only child.
(c) Colin's status as a prodigy.
(d) Colin's status as the nineteenth Colin in his family.

4. What is the first thing the three young people notice when they arrive in Memphis?
(a) Lindsey's ex-boyfriend's car is in front of his mother's house.
(b) Hollis' car is at the warehouse.
(c) There are several police cars at the music store.
(d) The warehouse parking lot is empty.

5. What does Hollis invite the boys to do?
(a) Try to solve a puzzle she gives them.
(b) Have dinner at her house.
(c) Stay at their farm for a couple weeks.
(d) Participate in a contest at the local fair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the boys stop at a convenience store?

2. What does Hollis offer Colin and Hassan?

3. Why does Lindsey teach Colin what she teaches him?

4. What does the narrator say about the fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare"?

5. How is the person in the grave the boys visit portrayed?

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