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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 Superintendent of School Hargraves say about the airplane?
(a) It's mankind's greatest step forward in a hundred years.
(b) It's too noisy.
(c) Man wasn't made to fly.
(d) It makes a lot of smoke and stinks.

2. What does Joe wish as he goes to bed?
(a) That his mother would talk with him about Diane.
(b) They would take him out and shoot him.
(c) That Diane knew he was home.
(d) That he had a dog.

3. What does Joe find out when someone finally answers the phone?
(a) His father has died.
(b) His younger sister is gone.
(c) His girlfriend is in the hospital.
(d) His mother has died.

4. What did his girlfriend ask him when he was drafted?
(a) Not to go.
(b) To go to Canada.
(c) To run away to Mexico.
(d) To carry her scarf.

5. What does Joe finally realize towards the end of Chapter 3?
(a) He is in America.
(b) He has lost his mother's letter.
(c) He can't move his legs.
(d) He has lost both arms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Joe and his friends swim in Colorado?

2. Why does Joe Bonham wish someone would pick up the phone?

3. What skill do Joe and his friends master?

4. How does Joe feel about the war?

5. What does Joe wonder about when he thinks of the foxhole?

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