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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 was the common name given to an administrative history written by physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth about the Allied World War II effort to develop the atomic bomb?
(a) The Manhattan Report.
(b) The Smyth Report.
(c) The Allied Report.
(d) The DeWolf Report.

2. How old was Johnny when he started taking geology classes and found them very interesting in "A Few More of His Letters"?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 11.
(d) 13.

3. In 1939, Johnny's letters reveal that he decided to make his own what in "A Few More of His Letters"?
(a) Flute.
(b) Violin.
(c) Trombone.
(d) Guitar.

4. In "Aftermath," Johnny's family was told that what would be very important to the neurological institutes in the world because it was so unique that Johnny remained so well up to the very end?
(a) The slides from Johnny's brain.
(b) Johnny's memoir.
(c) Johnny's DNA.
(d) Johnny's brain samples.

5. When did Pierre Lecomte du Nouy die?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1952.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means marked by or showing bravery or valor; heroic?

2. Johnny's very last entry in "The Diary" relates a trip to the public library, where he collected information on what?

3. What part of Johnny's body was clumsy and wouldn't open properly when he returned home in Chapter 5?

4. Who played John Gunther in the TV movie based on the narrative from "Death Be Not Proud"?

5. How does the author describe the weather at Johnny's funeral in "Aftermath"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Johnny describe his operations and treatment in "A Few More of His Letters"?

2. How does Gunther describe the weather at Johnny's funeral in "Aftermath"?

3. How did Johnny feel about his illness during his hospitalization in June 12 in Chapter 5?

4. What did Johnny write to this father when he was sixteen in "A Few More of His Letters"?

5. Why did Johnny's father tell him an outright lie in Chapter 5?

6. What interests did Johnny write about in his letters from age thirteen to fifteen in "A Few More of His Letters"?

7. What is revealed about the traveling of Johnny's family in "A Few More of His Letters"?

8. What thoughts and themes are revealed in "A Word From Frances"?

9. What was Johnny reading and studying in his last entries from "The Diary"?

10. How does John Gunther describe Johnny's emotional state on the Sunday before he died in Chapter 5?

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