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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapters 7-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Bonham think he is dying?
(a) He is being ignored by the hospital staff.
(b) He wants to die so he denies he can live.
(c) No one can lose so much of oneself and live.
(d) He is hot and shaky.

2. What does Glen Hogan give Joe for his birthday one year?
(a) Brown silk socks.
(b) A new pocket knife.
(c) A blue tie.
(d) A leather jacket.

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

4. Why doesn't Joe worry about lack of appetite?
(a) He wants to die anyway.
(b) He doesn't like army food.
(c) He wanted to lose weight.
(d) They pump food in his stomach.

5. What does Joe think would be wonderful when he was thinking about the nurse and the rat?
(a) That nothing is real.
(b) That he would hear.
(c) That it's his mother bathing him.
(d) If they were the same person.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe see in the snow as he thinks of his life?

2. What does Joe wish as he goes to bed?

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

4. How does Joe know time has passed?

5. Why does Joe think he is masked?

(see the answer key)

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