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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the psychologist work that Colin's parents consult?
(a) University of Chicago.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Michigan State.
(d) MIT.

2. What does Colin seem to notice in almost everything around him?
(a) Despair.
(b) Symbols of Katherine the XIX.
(c) Light.
(d) Deep philosophical meanings.

3. Why do the boys stop at a convenience store?
(a) They see an advertisement for free gas.
(b) They see an advertisement for a free map.
(c) To ask directions to the cemetery.
(d) It is where the start of the grave is.

4. What does Hassan want when he first wakes?
(a) A donut.
(b) Toothpaste.
(c) Coffee.
(d) To know what time it is.

5. What story does the convenience clerk tell Hassan and Colin?
(a) About the Archduke's death.
(b) About her mechanic's course at the tech school.
(c) About her paramedic training.
(d) About her grandmother who was a medium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Colin and Lindsey discuss when she checks on Colin?

2. What is Hassan's response to what Colin tells him?

3. How do other children treat Colin in his first few years of school?

4. What do Colin and Katherine IXI do in her basement after the coffee shop?

5. What is Colin Singleton doing at the opening of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Colin call his mother?

2. What does Hollis offer Hassan and Colin?

3. Where does the tour of the famous grave begin and who gives the tour?

4. What happens when Colin talks to Katherine and what does he do as a result of the conversation?

5. What does Hassan do in order to be able to go back to the Hollis home earlier than they are supposed to?

6. What does Colin think about as he is lying on the ground waiting for the tour guide to return?

7. How does Colin keep himself awake while driving and why is that ironic?

8. What do Hassan and Colin discuss concerning prodigies and geniuses?

9. What is the notebook that Colin sketches in while waiting for the tour guide to return?

10. What does Starnes say when Colin, Hassan and Linsey interview him?

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