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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Tex's dream about?
(a) His father
(b) His brother going to college
(c) He is leaving the house
(d) His mother
2. Which character is accused of ruining the happy mood when Tex, Mason, and Lem share the news?
(a) Cole
(b) Lem
(c) Jamie
(d) Johnny
3. How does Tex end the crisis with the hitchhiker?
(a) Speeds up faster
(b) Runs the truck into a canyon
(c) Slams on his brakes
(d) Drives the truck into a tree
4. What does the hitchhiker say he will do if Tex continues to speed?
(a) Kill Mason
(b) Kill Tex
(c) Let them both go alive with no injuries
(d) Take over driving the truck
5. Which word best describes what Cole hopes to do to Mason and Tex?
(a) Help
(b) Intimidate
(c) Excite
(d) Repulse
6. Which word best describes Mason's mood on the drive back home?
(a) Happy
(b) Uplifted
(c) Relieved
(d) Bad
7. What was the name of the novel Tex read for a book report in English which he really enjoyed reading?
(a) Smoky the Cowboy
(b) Smoky the Cowhorse
(c) Hokey the Cowhorse
(d) Smokey the Bear
8. What happens to the hitchhiker?
(a) Mason shoots him with his own gun
(b) He escapes across the state line
(c) He is killed by the police
(d) He runs down into a ditch
9. Who do they visit once they leave the fair?
(a) Johnny
(b) Jamie
(c) Mason
(d) Charlie
10. Which of the following words best describes how Tex feels once he finds out how where Mason is really going?
(a) Relieved
(b) Worried
(c) Happy
(d) Angry
11. What did Tex do to an art project which got him in trouble?
(a) Used profanity in it
(b) Tore up another student's project
(c) Refused to do it
(d) Set it on fire
12. Who is Cole?
(a) Tex's father
(b) Mason's friend
(c) Jamie's brother
(d) Jamie's father
13. What does Tex say has happened?
(a) Johnny's bike tires need air
(b) Johnny's bike couldn't do it
(c) Johnny was chicken
(d) Johnny hit a bump
14. How does Tex get out of the situation at the sporting goods store?
(a) Agrees to work to pay off any costs
(b) Goes with the police
(c) Talks his way out of it
(d) Waits for Mason to come and vouch for his character
15. What could it be said that Tex helps Johnny recover by making the jump?
(a) Reputation
(b) Success
(c) Health
(d) Dignity
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Cole want to blame for the boys drunkenness the night before?
2. What season is it as this story opens?
3. Where is the fair?
4. What causes Johnny and Tex to stop speaking for a period of time?
5. Where is Tex told to drive?
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