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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 do when he finally realizes the full extent of his injuries?
(a) He calls out to his mother to come help him.
(b) He sobs.
(c) He calls for Kareen.
(d) He tries to figure out how to die.

2. How does Joe figure out that he is deaf?
(a) He can't hear his pulse.
(b) He can's hear any music.
(c) He can't hear the doctors.
(d) He can't hear his mother.

3. 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.

4. Why are Joe and Howie laying track in the desert?
(a) Things were out of control at home.
(b) They want to build up their muscles.
(c) His father got him the job.
(d) They need money for school.

5. What does Joe think about his teachers?
(a) He learned a lot from them.
(b) He remembers they thought he was dumb.
(c) They never taught him anything.
(d) He wonders what they would think of him now.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Joe assume when he feels the nurse's hand for the fifth time?

3. What are the guys in the train station that Joe sees playing to pass the time?

4. Why does Bonham think he is dying?

5. What do Joe and Flannigan often do together?

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