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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Slip Away.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the enlisting sergeant compare David to?
(a) Christopher Platte.
(b) Chuck Yeager.
(c) John Boyd.
(d) "Tex" Johnston.

2. What is the name of David's social worker?
(a) Ms. Gold.
(b) Ms. Smith.
(c) Ms. Free.
(d) Ms. Silver.

3. Instead of going out during time off from the Air Force, what does David do?
(a) Write letters home.
(b) Lie in bed and cry.
(c) Call all of his family.
(d) Read.

4. What item of his father's does David take from the coat in the closet?
(a) His father's medicine.
(b) His father's admittance papers.
(c) His father's badge.
(d) His father's medical card.

5. What does David's mother tell her mother (David's grandmother) that David did when he visited?
(a) Made his mother cry.
(b) Stormed into the house and tore it up.
(c) Broke her television.
(d) Slapped his brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Technical Sergeant, or David's supervisor, that finally tells him he is doing a great job?

2. What does David want his mother to do to him?

3. While staying with his father in the hospital, David goes to see his mother. Who answers the door at his mother's house?

4. What statement does David make at the very end of Chapter 1?

5. What does the nurse tell Steve he has to do in order to allow his father to "go?"

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