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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Joe think when he read THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII?
(a) That it must have been awful for the people.
(b) It was a quick, easy way to die.
(c) That he would never live near a volcano.
(d) A mountain had blown up trapping him in the lava.

2. What does Joe finally realize towards the end of Chapter 3?
(a) He is in America.
(b) He has lost his mother's letter.
(c) He has lost both arms.
(d) He can't move his legs.

3. What does his girlfriend's father do in the morning on his departure day?
(a) Takes him to a restaurant.
(b) Makes him breakfast.
(c) Gives him his old army jacket.
(d) Gives him a haircut.

4. What does Joe go to the store for on Saturdays?
(a) To buy candy for his sisters.
(b) To bring his father home.
(c) Buy his mother soap.
(d) Buy hamburgers for dinner.

5. What does Superintendent of School Hargraves say about the airplane?
(a) It makes a lot of smoke and stinks.
(b) It's too noisy.
(c) It's mankind's greatest step forward in a hundred years.
(d) Man wasn't made to fly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the biggest event of the year in Joe's hometown?

2. When does the first snowfall usually happen where Joe grew up?

3. What does his girlfriend's father tell him to do the night before he leaves?

4. How does Joe feel about the war?

5. Why does Joe Bonham wish someone would pick up the phone?

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