MATH TEST
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BONUS
100

The protagonist's age at the start of his trip

What is 17 years old?

100

The names of the giraffes

What are Boy and Girl?

(Later, Lofty and Patches)

100

The first catastrophic event for the giraffes

What is the hurricane that damages the ship carrying the giraffes?

100

Location of the harbor where the giraffes are brought amid the storm

What is New York?

100

Red's reason to hide from law enforcement

What is being a runaway wife and car thief?

200

The year this story takes place

What is 1938?

200

The full name of the protagonist

What is Woodrow Wilson Nickel?

200

Woody follows the rig until something happens that allows him to be the driver.

What is the previous driver running away, spooked by a kick from the giraffes?

200

Birthplace of the protagonist

What is the Texas Panhandle or the Dust Bowl?

200

Woody's reason to hide from law enforcement

What is a shoot-out with his father and his father's subsequent suicide?

300

The year this book was published

What is 2021?

300

Red's given name

What is Augusta (Lowe)?

300

Animal abuser who tries to buy, then steal the giraffes

Who is Percival, owner of the traveling circus?

300

Final destination for the giraffes

What is the San Diego Zoo?

300

The person Woody wants to share his story with before he dies

Who is Red's daughter?

400

Approximate number of miles in this cross-country trek

What is 3,000?

400

The man in charge of the giraffes

Who was Riley Jones?

In real life, Charley Smith, San Diego's head zoo-keeper

400

Part 1: Natural disaster that happens when the rig is  in Texas near Woody's birthplace

Part 2:  The person who saves them

Part 1: What is a flash flood?

Part 2:  Who is Red?

400

Woody's final home

What is a nursing home in San Diego?

(near the zoo)

400

The director of the destination zoo for the giraffes

Who is Mrs. Belle Benchley?

500

The number of days the cross-country trip took

What is 12 or 13?

(3,000 mi / 13 da = 231 mi a day

231 mi a day / 30mph = 8 hrs driving a day)

500

The black family who gets the rig back on the road.

Who are the Jacksons?

500

This person threatens the lives of Woody, the Old Man, Red and the giraffes

Who is Cooter, the owner of the roadside wildlife zoo?

500

Location of train station where Woody was to meet Red

What is Phoenix?

500

The port where the giraffes began their travels

What is (British East) Africa?  Now Kenya

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