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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hassan say he is not going to work?
(a) Because he does not feel well.
(b) Because it is a religious holiday.
(c) Because Hollis goes to the factory on Thursdays.
(d) Because he has no clean clothes.

2. Who joins in the effort to help the situation in the graveyard?
(a) Katrina.
(b) No one.
(c) Matthew.
(d) One of Lindsey's boyfriend's friend.

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

4. According to Colin, whose name is anagrammed?
(a) Katherine the XIX.
(b) Lindsey's.
(c) The Archduke Ferdinand.
(d) Lindsey's great grandfather.

5. Who is Katrina?
(a) Lindsey's younger sister.
(b) Another clerk at the convenience store.
(c) Lindsey's first cousin.
(d) A girl Hassan is interested in.

6. What does Hassan record with the machine they have been using for interviews?
(a) Confessions from Lindsey's Colin and Katrina.
(b) The sounds of gunshots.
(c) The sounds of someone screaming.
(d) The squeal of a wild boar.

7. What does Colin finish when the three young people return home?
(a) Writing a song.
(b) The theorem.
(c) A letter to Katherine XIX.
(d) Tuning Lindsey's guitar.

8. What does Hassan say about Katrina?
(a) That she makes him mad.
(b) That she keeps flirting with Hassan and he's not interested.
(c) That she is a difficult female.
(d) That he kissed her.

9. What does Hassan do when Lindsey arrives with two other boys?
(a) Tells Lindsey that Katrina is not a good friend.
(b) Tells Lindsey he has to go home with his father.
(c) Shows Lindsey a picture Hassan takes with his cell phone.
(d) Plays the recording he made.

10. What does Lindsey think was a way of Hollis raising money?
(a) Writing a book about Gutshot.
(b) Saying the grave was the Archduke's.
(c) Holding an annual wild boar hunt.
(d) Selling pig meat.

11. What do Colin and Hassan find as they keep walking?
(a) A dead raccoon.
(b) A dead hog.
(c) Lindsey's secret cave.
(d) An abandoned house.

12. Why is Hollis burying the string?
(a) To keep from firing workers.
(b) She is not burying string.
(c) It is the cheapest way to dispose of it.
(d) It was contaminated.

13. What wakes Colin up on Thursday morning?
(a) The rooster is on the windowsill of his bedroom.
(b) Hollis is yelling through the door.
(c) Lindsey jumping on his bed.
(d) Hassan snoring.

14. Who is Roy?
(a) The man running the bulldozer.
(b) Lindsey's ex-boyfriend's brother.
(c) The music store clerk.
(d) Lindsey's uncle.

15. What is Lindsey doing when she goes into the bathroom and cries?
(a) Finishing the interview with Mabel.
(b) Confronting the other Colin.
(c) Yelling at Katrina.
(d) Thanking Matthew for standing up to Colin the day before.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Colin say will eventually swallow everyone up?

2. Why does Colin read up on wild hogs?

3. Who will Colin and Hassan interview next?

4. What does Colin tell Hassan he is going to do?

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

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