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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Colin do as he is waiting on the ground behind the convenience store?

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

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

4. What does the narrator say about the fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare"?

5. To what status does Colin refer when speaking to Hassan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Colin's parents enroll him in a pre-school?

2. Whose grave is advertised when Colin and Hassan decide to exit off the interstate?

3. What do all of Colin's former girlfriends have in common besides having dated Colin?

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

5. What does Colin overhear Hassan and Lindsey talking about and what do the three young people do that evening?

6. What happens to Colin as they are following their tour guide behind the store and who helps him?

7. What does Hollis offer Hassan and Colin?

8. Why does Hassan seem to think that Colin's problem is spiritual?

9. How does Colin respond to what his father tells him when Colin gets out of the shower?

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

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