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

2. What does Joe weep about for the first time?
(a) A girl.
(b) Going to war.
(c) His mother's death.
(d) Working in the desert.

3. Why does Joe think he is masked?
(a) So the nurses won't have to look at him.
(b) To keep infection down.
(c) So his face will heal.
(d) They haven't taken off the bandages yet.

4. What skill do Joe and his friends master?
(a) Hunting deer and elk.
(b) Dancing with the girls.
(c) Smoking cigarettes with style.
(d) Asking a girl on a date.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe think would be wonderful when he was thinking about the nurse and the rat?

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

3. What does Joe decide when he first figures out he has no arms?

4. What does Joe think is the only important thing he has left?

5. What is Jose's ethnic background?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the pilot who comes to Joe's hometown, what does he do and what does the superintendent of schools say about airplanes?

2. Why does Howie wake Joe up after working all day on the railroad?

3. How does Joe feel about the nurse bathing him?

4. What doesn't Joe understand about being alive?

5. Why does Joe think he is dying and why does he know he is alive?

6. What does Joe think about doctors and war?

7. What does Joe think guys should do when called up for the military?

8. What idea does Pinky Carson come up with for Jose and how does that work out?

9. What does Joe think when he thinks of his family and what does he see as the reality?

10. What does Joe want to stop and why?

(see the answer keys)

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