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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens as Colin is walking behind the convenience store?
(a) He notices the odor of propane.
(b) He falls and hits his head.
(c) He twists his ankle.
(d) He worries about being led into a trap.

2. What is Colin reminded of by the smell at the first person's house that the three young people go to for interviews?
(a) The abandoned home of a wealthy eccentric man in Colin's hometown.
(b) His first ride in a car.
(c) Katherine IXI's basement.
(d) His grandmother's house.

3. What does Hassan think is the answer to Colin's problems?
(a) A girlfriend with another name.
(b) A unique invention.
(c) A belief in God.
(d) A more varied workout.

4. What role does the clerk at the convenient store play besides as cashier?
(a) Mechanic.
(b) Gas pumper.
(c) Tour guide.
(d) Cook.

5. Where are Colin's parents when they are first mentioned?
(a) Sitting on his bed.
(b) Down in the basement fighting about Colin.
(c) Looking at the pictures of Colin ex-girlfriends on his wall.
(d) Swimming in the ocean also.

6. How old was Colin when he started reading on his own?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 16 months.
(d) 25 months.

7. What does Colin overhear Hassan and Lindsey discussing?
(a) About Hassan's attraction to Colin's sister.
(b) About Hassan not wanting to go to college.
(c) Him.
(d) About Lindsey's plan to break up with her current boyfriend.

8. What does the factory manufacture that is owned by Hollis' family?
(a) Climbing ropes.
(b) Bungee cords.
(c) Tarpon nets.
(d) Tampon strings.

9. What theorem is Colin developing?
(a) The Theorem of the Multi-colored Ducks.
(b) The Theorem of Latitude Probability.
(c) The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability.
(d) The Theorem of Now.

10. What does Hassan do at the opening to Chapter 2?
(a) Comes into Colin's room.
(b) Smashes some flowers near the curb with his car.
(c) Calls Colin on his cell phone.
(d) Puts a mouse in Colin's family's mailbox.

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

12. What does Hassan propose to Colin's parents?
(a) That he and Colin take a road trip.
(b) That Colin needs to get his own place.
(c) That Colin needs to break the Katherine cycle.
(d) That Colin needs to relax over the summer.

13. Who is Hollis?
(a) The store clerk's mother.
(b) Another clerk in the convenience store.
(c) A hitchhiker Colin and Hassan pick up.
(d) Another tourist visiting the gravesite.

14. Where does Lindsey take Colin and Hassan on their first day of working?
(a) The mechanical room.
(b) The barn.
(c) Old man Starnes' house.
(d) They old balers.

15. What is Hassan's response to what Colin tells him?
(a) That the mouse was already dead.
(b) To snap out of it.
(c) That Colin can move in with him.
(d) That it was a lousy job anyway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the tour guide take off her tee shirt?

2. What does Hassan use to convince his parents of the reasonableness of his idea for Colin and him?

3. What does Hollis offer Colin and Hassan?

4. What does Colin's pre-school tell his parents?

5. What does Colin's father say he, his mother and Katherine all have in common?

(see the answer keys)

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