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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Joe get tired?
(a) He can't tell when it's night.
(b) He has no arms or legs to move.
(c) That part of his brain was damaged.
(d) He's no longer working.

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

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

4. What did Joe think when he read THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII?
(a) That it must have been awful for the people.
(b) A mountain had blown up trapping him in the lava.
(c) It was a quick, easy way to die.
(d) That he would never live near a volcano.

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

6. Why does Joe Bonham wish someone would pick up the phone?
(a) He hates the tone the phone makes.
(b) He is expecting a call.
(c) He has a terrible headache.
(d) He hates phones on general principle.

7. What does Joe say he is as far as a lottery for life?
(a) One in a million loser.
(b) Someone who didn't buy a ticket.
(c) A lucky winner.
(d) One in ten million loser.

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

9. What is the biggest event of the year in Joe's hometown?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Easter.
(c) The County Fair.
(d) The harvest.

10. What did Joe's father ask him when he arrives at home?
(a) If he can go to the store.
(b) Why he worked only one day on the rail job.
(c) If he is staying in for the night.
(d) Where Diane is.

11. What is Joe trying to figure out how to tell his father when they go camping?
(a) He wants to go hunting.
(b) He hates to fish.
(c) Bill Harper is coming to fish with Joe.
(d) He hates to camp.

12. How does Joe feel when the nurse is washing him?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Safe and snug.
(c) Embarrassed.
(d) In pain.

13. What is Joe trying to stop?
(a) From wanting to see his mother.
(b) From wondering where he is.
(c) From thinking.
(d) All the fading, rushing, smothering, sinking, and rising.

14. What do the workers tell Jose to do?
(a) Spit in the bread dough in front of the boss.
(b) Knock the boss over.
(c) Drop a bunch of pies.
(d) Leave the water running in the kitchen.

15. What happened to the coal miner who returned home badly wounded?
(a) He fell into a coal mine.
(b) He shot himself.
(c) He died from eating an apple.
(d) His wife killed him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did the bread sacks Joe lifted at the bakery weigh?

2. What is happening in Joe's mind as he lays in bed?

3. What did his parents use when they were courting?

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

5. What did the doctors use to put in a window of a guy who had his stomach blown away?

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