In Our Time Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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In Our Time Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bugs do to calm Ad down?
(a) Sings a lullaby
(b) Gives him a sedative
(c) Makes him drink whiskey
(d) Knocks him out

2. According to the narrator, what is the worst scene among the evacuees?
(a) Children crying for milk
(b) Women vomiting in the streets
(c) The women with dead babies who will not relinquish them
(d) Men begging for food

3. Why does Nick's nurse leave for Pordenone?
(a) To care for her parents
(b) To open a hospital
(c) To attend college
(d) To buy a house

4. What does Nick do when he learns that his mother wants to see him?
(a) Takes the boat out onto the lake
(b) Goes fishing
(c) Goes on a walk with his father
(d) Takes the car into town

5. What is Nick's father's profession?
(a) Minister
(b) Lawyer
(c) Accountant
(d) Doctor

6. What is a woman doing on a cart?
(a) Giving birth
(b) Singing
(c) Polishing a gun
(d) Holding a suitcase

7. What is the soldier in the Memoir for Chapter 7 doing?
(a) Writing a letter
(b) Praying in a trench
(c) Smoking a cigarette
(d) Cleaning his gun

8. What is the narrator doing in the Memoir?
(a) He is on vacation
(b) He is with his combat unit
(c) He is visiting relatives
(d) He is writing restaurant reviews

9. What shocking event occurs this night for Nick, his father and Uncle George?
(a) A man commits suicide by slitting his throat
(b) The country goes to war with Japan
(c) The local forest catches fire
(d) There is a lynching in town

10. What does the soldier promise in the trench that he does not do when danger has passed?
(a) Call his mother
(b) Stop smoking
(c) Write a letter to his girlfriend
(d) Tell everyone about Jesus

11. Who is Dick Boulton?
(a) A school board member
(b) One of the men who comes to work for Nick's father
(c) The head of the local plumbers union
(d) The mayor of the town

12. What profession does Nick's father have?
(a) Lawyer
(b) Doctor
(c) Minister
(d) Accountant

13. What does Nick's father call the floating logs?
(a) Flotsam
(b) Kindling
(c) Jetsam
(d) A nuisance

14. Who is the unnamed narrator of the story?
(a) An American officer
(b) A Buddhist monk
(c) A Hungarian gypsy
(d) A French waiter

15. What does Nick call his friend, Rinaldi, in the Memoir?
(a) A disappointing audience
(b) A poor excuse for a man
(c) The best friend he has ever had
(d) A man among men

Short Answer Questions

1. A U.S. ship called the Simpson is in a ______________ state.

2. What does Bill's father say makes drunkards?

3. What does Nick say is no longer any fun?

4. In the Memoir for Chapter 4, what do the soldiers use for a barricade against the enemy?

5. What feeling does Nick have on this morning?

(see the answer keys)

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