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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. How does Joe feel after the man tells him what he says in question #175?
(a) He is joyfully surprised.
(b) He has no hope.
(c) He is hopeful.
(d) He feels supported.

2. How does Joe first start trying to keep track of time?
(a) Counting minutes.
(b) Counting hours.
(c) Counting seconds.
(d) Counting the number of times the door opens.

3. Why is everyone in Bethlehem in the story Joe's mother reads?
(a) To flee the Romans.
(b) To watch an eclipse of the sun.
(c) To go to a Christmas pageant.
(d) Paying taxes.

4. How does Joe feel after the man who he has been talking to leaves?
(a) Full of misgivings.
(b) Elated.
(c) Empty.
(d) Angry.

5. What was the name of the first girl with whom Joe had sex ?
(a) Diane.
(b) Susie.
(c) Kareen.
(d) Ruby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the visitors leave with Joe?

2. What does Joe think the hospital wants to do?

3. What occurs to Joe about vibrations and moving?

4. What does Joe think about his mother reading?

5. What happens the third year Joe is in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Joe think he's in England?

2. What does Joe think about when he can feel dawn?

3. What is Joe's first response to what the nurse communicates to him?

4. What do you think it means when Joe thinks that two billion people have been pushing the lid of his coffin down and covering him with dirt and stone.

5. What does Joe think is the key to knowing time and how does he plan to use the key?

6. How does Joe envision his nurses?

7. What does the nurse think Joe wants at first when Joe starts tapping?

8. What does the day nurse do with Joe?

9. What does Joe remember about New Year's Eve in Shale City and Los Angeles?

10. What does the little guy waiting for the train with Joe say? How does Joe answer him? What do they do then?

(see the answer keys)

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