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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to Nick in the Memoir of Chapter 6?
(a) He was shot in the spine
(b) He got a new job
(c) He got married
(d) He graduated college

2. What does Nick say is no longer any fun?
(a) Fishing
(b) Love
(c) Skinny dipping
(d) Baseball

3. In the Memoir for Chapter 4, what do the soldiers use for a barricade against the enemy?
(a) Wrought iron grating
(b) Some old cars
(c) Sandbags
(d) A decaying building

4. When do Nick and his nurse meet again?
(a) When she comes to America
(b) When he gets leave
(c) When she quits her job
(d) After the armistice

5. What does the soldier promise in the trench that he does not do when danger has passed?
(a) Call his mother
(b) Write a letter to his girlfriend
(c) Stop smoking
(d) Tell everyone about Jesus

6. Who else is attempting to leave Smyrna?
(a) Greek civilians
(b) Russian immigrants
(c) U.S. tourists
(d) Romanian gypsies

7. Why does the Lieutenant ride his horse out into the field?
(a) He is exploring
(b) He is drunk
(c) He is lost
(d) He is looking for mines

8. What is the nature of the problem with which Nick's father can assist?
(a) A man has hacked off his forearm
(b) A woman is having trouble delivering a baby
(c) A man needs a will drawn up
(d) A man has been indicted on criminal charges

9. What is unusual about Ad's face?
(a) He has no eyebrows
(b) One eye is brown, the other is blue
(c) He is scarred on the entire left side
(d) His eyes are slits, nose is sunken and an ear is missing

10. How does Nick sustain his injury?
(a) He is sucker punched
(b) He falls on an icy sidewalk
(c) He is hit by a car
(d) He falls down stairs

11. What are Nick and Marjorie doing as the story begins?
(a) Playing tennis
(b) Riding bicycles
(c) Studying
(d) Rowing in a boat

12. Where does Nick like to spend time at the hospital?
(a) The cafeteria
(b) The roof
(c) The lobby
(d) The chapel

13. Why does Uncle George not accompany Nick and his father back to their camp that night?
(a) He is too sick to stay overnight in the woods
(b) He is tired of fishing and sleeping outside
(c) He is too shaken by what he has witnessed
(d) He has to go to work in the morning

14. What makes Krebs' mother cry?
(a) When Krebs slaps her
(b) When Krebs says he does not love anybody
(c) When Krebs and his father fight
(d) When Krebs says he is going to reenlist

15. Where does Nick find Bill?
(a) At school
(b) At his father's cottage
(c) In town
(d) At the library

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nick's father's profession?

2. What war does the narrator mention in the memoir for Chapter 1?

3. What does Ad tell Nick about himself?

4. What has Marjorie brought along tonight?

5. What is the narrator doing in the Memoir?

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