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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Joe finally get fired?
(a) He asks the boss's daughter out.
(b) He slaps the boss.
(c) He pushes over a cart of blueberry pies.
(d) He burns up a thousand hot cross buns.

2. What does Joe realize that he can't tell the difference between?
(a) Hot and cold.
(b) Night and day.
(c) Pain and feeling good.
(d) Dreaming and being awake.

3. When he wants to kill himself by not breathing what does he find out?
(a) He can't hold his breath.
(b) His breathing is beyond his control.
(c) He is strapped down so he can't move.
(d) He passes out before dying.

4. What is the biggest event of the year in Joe's hometown?
(a) The County Fair.
(b) Easter.
(c) Christmas.
(d) The harvest.

5. What does Joe say he is as far as a lottery for life?
(a) One in a million loser.
(b) A lucky winner.
(c) One in ten million loser.
(d) Someone who didn't buy a ticket.

6. What happened to Joe's left arm?
(a) It was burned badly.
(b) It was broken.
(c) It was cut off at the shoulder.
(d) It was amputated at the elbow.

7. How much did the bread sacks Joe lifted at the bakery weigh?
(a) 90 pounds.
(b) 30 pounds.
(c) 50 pounds.
(d) 100 pounds.

8. Where did Joe and his father go camping when he was young?
(a) Near the Canadian border.
(b) In the high pine and lake country.
(c) At the national forest near their house.
(d) In Utah.

9. Joe would think he was dead except why?
(a) He can't see anyone else.
(b) He is thinking and curious.
(c) He shouldn't go to hell and where he is must be hell.
(d) He can feel his breathing.

10. When does the first snowfall usually happen where Joe grew up?
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) Valentine's Day.
(c) Christmas.
(d) New Years Day.

11. Why does Joe Bonham wish someone would pick up the phone?
(a) He has a terrible headache.
(b) He hates phones on general principle.
(c) He is expecting a call.
(d) He hates the tone the phone makes.

12. What does Joe want to do most as he is lying in bed injured?
(a) To die.
(b) To hear someone talk.
(c) To go home.
(d) To get up and walk.

13. What type of musical instrument does Joe's mother play?
(a) Violin.
(b) Organ.
(c) Cello.
(d) Piano.

14. What does Joe wish as he goes to bed?
(a) That he had a dog.
(b) That his mother would talk with him about Diane.
(c) That Diane knew he was home.
(d) They would take him out and shoot him.

15. What does Joe ask Kareen in his dream?
(a) To have a child with him.
(b) To hold her head up so she won't drown.
(c) To come find him.
(d) To marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Superintendent of School Hargraves say about the airplane?

2. What does Joe finally do after thinking about a lottery?

3. How does Joe feel about the war?

4. What does Joe find out when someone finally answers the phone?

5. What does Joe go to the store for on Saturdays?

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