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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. How does Joe finally get fired?
(a) He pushes over a cart of blueberry pies.
(b) He slaps the boss.
(c) He burns up a thousand hot cross buns.
(d) He asks the boss's daughter out.

2. Joe would think he was dead except why?
(a) He can feel his breathing.
(b) He is thinking and curious.
(c) He can't see anyone else.
(d) He shouldn't go to hell and where he is must be hell.

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

4. What does Joe wonder about when he thinks of the foxhole?
(a) What hit them.
(b) Whether it was American bombs.
(c) The other guys in it.
(d) How the Germans found them.

5. What does Jose want to know from the rest of the workers at the bakery?
(a) How to quit his job gracefully.
(b) How to get into the movies.
(c) Where to get a map of Los Angeles.
(d) How to drive a car.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Joe's father ask him when he arrives at home?

3. What do the workers tell Jose to do?

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

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

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