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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Eugene to think that Private Lindstrom must have talked?
(a) The phone rings.
(b) An alarm rings.
(c) The officers start gathering across the camp.
(d) There is a PA announcement.

2. What evidence does Wykowski cite to accuse Epstein of being the escaped soldier?
(a) Epstein's disarrayed locker.
(b) Eugene's journal.
(c) Epstein's bootprints.
(d) Epstein's rumpled sheets.

3. What does Toomey say that Epstein will do, so that Toomey will win the fantasy game?
(a) Serve the army overseas.
(b) Remember him during the war.
(c) Live through the war.
(d) Obey army regulations.

4. What job did Eugene get in the army?
(a) A job writing for Stars and Stripes.
(b) A job disarming bombs.
(c) A job taking arial photographs.
(d) A job decoding enemy transmissions.

5. What does Daisy resist Eugene doing?
(a) Hugging her.
(b) Kissing her.
(c) Holding her hand.
(d) Dancing with her.

6. Where is Carney at the end of Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Inside the barracks.
(b) Outside the barracks.
(c) Outside the mess tent.
(d) Inside the mess tent.

7. Why does Eugene say he comes to dances?
(a) To find someone to have fun with.
(b) To find someone to marry.
(c) To find a girlfriend.
(d) To find someone to talk to.

8. What does Eugene say happened to his locker key?
(a) He dropped it on a march.
(b) He lost it in the shower drain.
(c) He left it in the hotel room.
(d) He dropped it in the mess tent.

9. What did Eugene write about Selridge?
(a) That he yells at his father in his sleep.
(b) That he murmurs and cries in his sleep.
(c) That he calls for his mother in his sleep.
(d) That he has dreams about getting killed.

10. Where was the escaped soldier seen?
(a) Entering the officers' club.
(b) Entering Toomey's troops' barracks.
(c) Entering the mess tent.
(d) Entering the motor pool.

11. What does Toomey do to get Epstein to take a drink?
(a) Toomey threatens to courtmartial Epstein.
(b) Toomey threatens to punish the other men.
(c) Toomey points a gun at Epstein.
(d) Toomey takes Epstein by the throat.

12. What does Carney do at the end of Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Falls asleep.
(b) Sings.
(c) Cries.
(d) Laughs.

13. Where is Daisy from?
(a) Crowder, Mississippi.
(b) Mathiston, Mississippi.
(c) Gulfport, Mississippi.
(d) Decatur, Mississippi.

14. What is Daisy's response to Eugene's declaration?
(a) That she doesn't want to see him anymore.
(b) That she loves him.
(c) That she just wants to have fun.
(d) That she doesn't really know him.

15. Does Carney understand Eugene's point of view after Eugene explains what he wrote?
(a) Yes, and he doesn't mind what Eugene wrote at all.
(b) No, he hates Eugene for what he wrote.
(c) Yes, but he is still hurt.
(d) No, but he doesn't care anymore about what Eugene wrote.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religious holiday is it?

2. Where does Act 2, Scene 8 take place?

3. How close does Eugene feel from being a writer?

4. What does Eugene say when Daisy asks him to dance?

5. What does Toomey ask Epstein?

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