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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe think about his head as he lays in the bed?
(a) It is too badly injured for him to live.
(b) The shell should have hit his head.
(c) It is too heavy.
(d) It is too messed up.

2. What does Joe realize when he tries to kick the blankets off?
(a) They are tucked under the mattress.
(b) He's lost his legs too.
(c) There are no blankets on him.
(d) He is strapped down.

3. In what month is Joe's birthday?
(a) July.
(b) September.
(c) May.
(d) December.

4. What does Joe decide when he figures out he's deaf?
(a) He can learn to read lips.
(b) He didn't like music anyway.
(c) He can get a hearing aid.
(d) He won't have to listen to his wife nag.

5. What does Joe weep about for the first time?
(a) His mother's death.
(b) A girl.
(c) Going to war.
(d) Working in the desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does his girlfriend's father do in the morning on his departure day?

2. What did Joe hear about Harper and his fortunes in the war?

3. Why are Joe and Howie laying track in the desert?

4. What does Joe see when he walks by Diane's house?

5. What did Joe think when he read THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII?

(see the answer key)

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