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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Colin read over and over while alone in his room?
(a) A poem his last girlfriend wrote for him.
(b) His yearbook.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A few poems he wrote for his last girlfriend.

2. What does Hassan use to convince his parents of the reasonableness of his idea for Colin and him?
(a) That jobs are non-existent, so Colin and Hassan should learn more about their country.
(b) That Colin and Hassan are too depressed to work that summer.
(c) That Colin and Hassan are going to find jobs.
(d) That Colin and Hassan are in their last summer of childhood.

3. What does Colin do when he goes into his bathroom after talking to his father?
(a) Cries.
(b) Cuts his arm.
(c) Shaves.
(d) Throws up.

4. Where do Colin and Hassan stop to sleep?
(a) Hassan's aunt's house.
(b) A campground.
(c) A rest stop.
(d) A motel.

5. What will Colin and Hassan do in their job that summer?
(a) Keeping the baling machines working.
(b) Running the machines in the factory.
(c) Cutting fibers.
(d) Interviews.

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

7. What does Colin decide to burn?
(a) His theorem notebook.
(b) His last letter from Katherine XIX.
(c) All his letters from his previous Katherines.
(d) A poem he wrote Katherine I.

8. In what grade is Colin when he meets his first Katherine?
(a) 2nd.
(b) 4th.
(c) 3rd.
(d) 6th.

9. What does the tour guide saying she is training to become?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A beautician.
(c) A paramedic.
(d) A car mechanic.

10. Who is Hassan?
(a) Colin's father's boss.
(b) The neighborhood brat.
(c) Colin's boss.
(d) Colin's friend.

11. What does Colin tell his parents when he calls them?
(a) That he and Hassan are still wandering.
(b) He decides not to call them.
(c) The truth about what he's doing.
(d) That he is visiting some colleges.

12. Who asked Colin if he wants to be her boyfriend?
(a) Katherine I.
(b) No one.
(c) A girl named Mary.
(d) The tour guide.

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

14. Where was Colin's first date with Katherine IXI?
(a) The park.
(b) A coffee shop.
(c) A football game.
(d) A brain bowl.

15. What does Hassan do in order to go back to Hollis' house early?
(a) Pretends to sprain his ankle.
(b) Fakes an asthma attack.
(c) Asks to used Lindsey's computer.
(d) Fakes indigestion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the tour guides first and only boyfriend?

2. Who is Katherine?

3. What does Hollis want Hassan and Colin to do the next day?

4. What are Hassan and Lindsey doing when Colin joins them?

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

(see the answer keys)

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