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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Colin fires at a wild pig?
(a) The recoil knocks him on his rump.
(b) He hits a squirrel.
(c) He wounds the pig but does not kill it.
(d) He hits a hornet's nest instead.

2. When does Colin get up on Saturday morning?
(a) Just about noon.
(b) 6:30 a.m.
(c) Around 10 in the morning.
(d) 4:30 in the morning.

3. What does Lindsey say to Colin and Hassan at the breakfast table?
(a) That Katrina called and apologized.
(b) That she is leaving for college in two weeks.
(c) That her ex-boyfriend is in jail.
(d) That she does not want to talk about what happened in the graveyard the day before.

4. What is the topic of conversation that Colin and Lindsey over hear Hollis having?
(a) The factory's tax situation.
(b) Lindsey's college prospects.
(c) About disposing of some trash.
(d) Colin.

5. What do Lindsey and Hassan share at some friends' house?
(a) Some old beef jerky.
(b) Stories about being the nerds at school.
(c) Half a bottle of wine.
(d) A beer.

6. Where does Hollis drive after visiting the factory?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Paducah.
(d) Chattanooga.

7. Why does Lindsey teach Colin what she teaches him?
(a) So he can hang a swing over the creek for her.
(b) Just to give him an experience he's never had.
(c) So he is not embarrassed the next weekend.
(d) He is curious about the gears.

8. What does Lindsey's boyfriend do?
(a) Runs off.
(b) Screams at Hassan.
(c) Hits Katrina.
(d) Tries to harm Lindsey.

9. How many clients does the factory have according to Hollis?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 1.

10. Who does Colin think might be forgotten in another 2,400 years?
(a) Plato.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Attila the Hun.

11. For how many Katherines does Colin's theorem work?
(a) 17.
(b) 19.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

12. How many days have Colin and Hassan been in Gutshot when they wake in Chapter 17?
(a) 22.
(b) 12.
(c) 40.
(d) 61.

13. What do Colin and Lindsey drink when Lindsey shows him the secret?
(a) Honeysuckle nectar.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Moonshine.
(d) Beer.

14. What useful bit of information do Colin and Hassan use that they learned during an interview?
(a) That hogs are more likely to attack than to run.
(b) That chewing tobacco is good for hornet stings.
(c) That pigs are more likely to run than to attack.
(d) That a pig can only see a range of twenty degees sidewards.

15. What has Hassan been doing with Lindsey when he returns to Lindsey's house?
(a) Cruising.
(b) Taking pictures in the park.
(c) Playing tennis.
(d) Interviewing young people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lindsey take Colin that is a secret?

2. Where does Colin really go?

3. What does Lindsey tell her mother she is going to do with Colin?

4. What does Colin tell Hassan and Lindsey that he has finished?

5. Why do the three young people go to the other side of town?

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