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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do some of the soldiers in France do that are too scared to talk?
(a) Talk like a two year old.
(b) Go catatonic.
(c) Act like dogs.
(d) Scream all night.

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

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

5. When he wants to kill himself by not breathing what does he find out?
(a) He passes out before dying.
(b) His breathing is beyond his control.
(c) He is strapped down so he can't move.
(d) He can't hold his breath.

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

7. What does Joe see when he walks by Diane's house?
(a) Diane and her mother on the front porch.
(b) Hogan and Diane kissing.
(c) Harper and Diane kissing.
(d) Diane sitting on the porch swing.

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

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

10. What did his parents use when they were courting?
(a) Sending messages with friends.
(b) A bulletin board at school.
(c) A party line telephone.
(d) Notes passed by their parents.

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

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

13. 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) If they were the same person.
(d) That nothing is real.

14. When does the first snowfall usually happen where Joe grew up?
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) Valentine's Day.
(c) Christmas.
(d) New Years Day.

15. How many days has Joe been sick in his life?
(a) Once.
(b) Never.
(c) Three times.
(d) Twice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What minor injury does Joe think about?

2. How does Joe feel about Harper as he is on his way back home from the desert?

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

4. What is the biggest event of the year in Joe's hometown?

5. What does Joe want to do most as he is lying in bed injured?

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