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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What skill do Joe and his friends master?
(a) Smoking cigarettes with style.
(b) Hunting deer and elk.
(c) Dancing with the girls.
(d) Asking a girl on a date.

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

3. What does Joe think about the fact that they cut off his arm?
(a) He's glad it wasn't his right arm.
(b) They should have asked him first.
(c) He still has the right arm.
(d) He can always walk.

4. What is happening in Joe's mind as he lays in bed?
(a) He thinks about when he's going to leave the hospital.
(b) He is still in the foxhole.
(c) All his memories are melting together.
(d) He hasn't got enough of a mind to think.

5. What does Joe think is the only important thing he has left?
(a) Being awake.
(b) Thinking clearly.
(c) Having his mother there.
(d) Feeling the nurse.

6. Why does Joe think he may be lucky not having a nose?
(a) He always thought his nose was too big.
(b) So he can't smell himself.
(c) So it doesn't look funny with no mouth.
(d) So he can't breath.

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

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

9. What does Joe see in the snow as he thinks of his life?
(a) His father pulling his mother on a sled.
(b) The branches of the trees covered in white.
(c) His sisters building a snowman.
(d) His brother throwing snowballs at him.

10. When does Joe become aware of the war?
(a) When his father is called up.
(b) When they move to Los Angeles.
(c) When he is drafted.
(d) When he hears it on the radio.

11. Why won't the doctors kill Joe now?
(a) They need him.
(b) It's against Army regulations.
(c) They put too much work into him.
(d) It would be murder.

12. What does Joe finally do after thinking about a lottery?
(a) Calms down and thinks.
(b) Rolls over.
(c) Kills himself.
(d) Tries to cry.

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

14. How much did the bread sacks Joe lifted at the bakery weigh?
(a) 100 pounds.
(b) 50 pounds.
(c) 90 pounds.
(d) 30 pounds.

15. What does Joe think he has to do first in order to kill himself?
(a) Get a hold of a gun.
(b) Make friends with the nurse.
(c) Learn to communicate.
(d) Flip over.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Joe trying to figure out how to tell his father when they go camping?

3. What does Joe think is his duty towards Diane?

4. What is Jose's ethnic background?

5. When does the first snowfall usually happen where Joe grew up?

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