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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Letter from Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the only letters that David regularly receives while in basic training?
(a) Ones from his mother.
(b) Ones from his brothers.
(c) Ones marked "Return to Sender."
(d) Ones from his father.

2. What does David want his mother to do to him?
(a) Hug him.
(b) Tell him she loves him.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Give him a bath.

3. Who calls to tell David that his father is in the hospital?
(a) His brother.
(b) His superior officer.
(c) His Mother.
(d) Alice.

4. What does the enlisting sergeant call David when talking to him about planes?
(a) Pelz-O.
(b) David.
(c) Dave-O.
(d) Pelz.

5. Why is David sick at the beginning of the second chapter?
(a) Because he has pneumonia.
(b) Because he has cancer.
(c) Because he is going to see his brother.
(d) Because he is flying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David's mother call him?

2. What are the two names that David calls his mother?

3. According to David, what word is associated with the highest compliment that his father could give him?

4. Where does the book begin?

5. Instead of going out during time off from the Air Force, what does David do?

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