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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 do Colin and Hassan go after talking to Colin's parents?
(a) To the beach.
(b) To the movies.
(c) To the basement to work on a new invention Colin has thought of.
(d) To Hassan's house.

2. What does the tour guide see written in Colin's notebook?
(a) A poem written in German.
(b) A picture of Katherine I.
(c) The words "Ipso facto."
(d) K-19.

3. What does Colin do for the first time since he and Katherine XIX broke up?
(a) Cries.
(b) Refuses to answer a call from Katherine.
(c) Starts thinking about his next girlfriend.
(d) Shrugs his shoulders and appears less attached.

4. What does Colin say genius is?
(a) The need to approval.
(b) As genius does.
(c) An overrated idea.
(d) The drive for fulfillment.

5. What does Colin hear as he wakes the next morning?
(a) A peacock yelling.
(b) A cow mooing.
(c) A horse neighing.
(d) A rooster crowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens as Colin is walking behind the convenience store?

2. What does Hassan want when he first wakes?

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

4. What does the factory manufacture that is owned by Hollis' family?

5. Why does Colin believe he is past the prime of his life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is in the convenience store when Colin and Hassan return from the grave and what does the person say to Colin?

2. What does Colin remember about himself when he was 25 months old?

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

4. Where does Lindsey go after interviewing Starnes?

5. What was Colin's first date with Katherine IXI?

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

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

8. What do Lindsey and Colin discuss before bedtime?

9. What are Colin and Hassan supposed to do that day and what do they accomplish?

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

(see the answer keys)

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