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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the worst thing for Charlie and Thomas where they are now?
(a) The rain.
(b) The constant sound of mortar fire.
(c) The continual loss of their trench mates.
(d) The sounds of soldiers dying.

2. How does Thomas get partially buried in the dirt?
(a) A tank pushes dirt over him when it does not see him.
(b) A collapsing trench.
(c) By a shell explosion.
(d) He is partially buied under dead soldiers.

3. How does Charlie feel about what Molly tells him?
(a) He does not believe it.
(b) He is depressed.
(c) He is happy.
(d) He is angry.

4. For what do Charlie and Thomas volunteer?
(a) The Merchant Marines.
(b) The Marines.
(c) The Navy.
(d) The Army.

5. What happens to Hanley?
(a) He returns to the trench where Charlie and Thomas are.
(b) He is badly wounded.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He is captured.

6. What outnumbers the people at the next duty assignment?
(a) Cats.
(b) Horses.
(c) Rats.
(d) Animals.

7. Why can't Thomas go anywhere?
(a) They are surrounded by the enemy.
(b) He is wounded too badly.
(c) He is blind.
(d) His leg is broken.

8. Where are Thomas, Charlie, and their local friends sent?
(a) To another unit.
(b) To the front.
(c) On leave.
(d) To a special training school.

9. What happens in the next minute after the German soldier sees the English?
(a) The German throws a grenade.
(b) The English shoot the German.
(c) The German runs shrieking to his comrades.
(d) The English tackle the German and gag him.

10. What is Thomas told back at the hospital?
(a) His lungs are slightly compromised.
(b) He is healthy.
(c) He must go home because his lungs are too injured.
(d) His lungs will take a few weeks to totally recover.

11. Why do the Germans begin to bombard their former trenches?
(a) They do not bombard their former trenches.
(b) To ruin the trenches.
(c) To explode the abandoned ammunition.
(d) To drive the Allies back.

12. What does Thomas think at first as they fire at the oncoming Germans?
(a) The Germans are immortal.
(b) The Germans cannot survive such an onslaught.
(c) The Germans are stupid for running out in the open.
(d) The company cannot survive.

13. What happens when Charlie and Thomas get to France?
(a) They have to face the truth of the war.
(b) They are split up.
(c) They are given non-combat assignments.
(d) They are both sent to work in the kitchens.

14. What seems to be briefly forgotten right after Big Joe is found?
(a) Old grudges.
(b) Bertha.
(c) Grandma Wolf.
(d) Big Joe's irritating behaviors.

15. What does Charlie say to Hanley?
(a) That if they retreat now, they will be seen and shot.
(b) That Charlie will go and destroy some of the guns.
(c) That at nightfall they cannot see the holes in the earth.
(d) That pursuit is suicidal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is hanging on the peg that used to be for Thomas and Charlie's father's coat?

2. What does Thomas say he plans to do?

3. What does Thomas do at work that is different?

4. What does Thomas wonder when they are first in the German's lines?

5. What does Hanley tell his men?

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