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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapters 14-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe realize about patches of skin on his neck and forehead?
(a) They are scaly.
(b) They itch.
(c) They are beginning to heal.
(d) Some are uncovered and healthy.

2. What does Joe ask Kareen in his dream?
(a) To come find him.
(b) To hold her head up so she won't drown.
(c) To marry him.
(d) To have a child with him.

3. What does Joe think he has to do first in order to kill himself?
(a) Make friends with the nurse.
(b) Learn to communicate.
(c) Flip over.
(d) Get a hold of a gun.

4. What is happening in Joe's mind as he lays in bed?
(a) He thinks about when he's going to leave the hospital.
(b) He is still in the foxhole.
(c) All his memories are melting together.
(d) He hasn't got enough of a mind to think.

5. What was the name of the first girl with whom Joe had sex ?
(a) Diane.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Susie.
(d) Kareen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe think is his duty towards Diane?

2. What does Joe realize now that he has "trapped" time?

3. What does Joe weep about for the first time?

4. What happened to the coal miner who returned home badly wounded?

5. Where is the desert in which Joe is working?

(see the answer key)

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