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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Joe and his father go camping when he was young?
(a) Near the Canadian border.
(b) In Utah.
(c) In the high pine and lake country.
(d) At the national forest near their house.

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

3. Where is the desert in which Joe is working?
(a) California.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Utah.

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

5. What does Joe ask Kareen in his dream?
(a) To come find him.
(b) To marry him.
(c) To hold her head up so she won't drown.
(d) To have a child with him.

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

7. What does Joe want the nurses to do so he doesn't feel like he's drowning?
(a) To wipe the sweat off his face.
(b) To put him in a chair.
(c) To lay him out flat.
(d) To prop him up.

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

9. 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.

10. Where did Joe and his friends swim in Colorado?
(a) In the river.
(b) A a swimming hole.
(c) In a big ditch.
(d) At a lake.

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

12. What famous person flies into Joe's hometown one day?
(a) David Grintings.
(b) Amelia Earhart.
(c) Daredevil pilot Lincoln Beechy.
(d) Charles Lindbergh.

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

14. What does Joe think you die for in war?
(a) Country.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Honor.
(d) Your woman.

15. What does Joe decide when he figures out he's deaf?
(a) He can learn to read lips.
(b) He won't have to listen to his wife nag.
(c) He didn't like music anyway.
(d) He can get a hearing aid.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does his girlfriend's father tell him to do the night before he leaves?

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

4. What does Glen Hogan give Joe for his birthday one year?

5. What does Joe think about the fact that they cut off his arm?

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