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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What minor injury does Joe think about?
(a) A scrap on his stomach.
(b) A hole in his side.
(c) A bruise on the back of his head.
(d) Joe has only major injuries.

2. What does Joe find out when someone finally answers the phone?
(a) His girlfriend is in the hospital.
(b) His mother has died.
(c) His father has died.
(d) His younger sister is gone.

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

4. What does Joe think is his duty towards Diane?
(a) To marry her.
(b) To let her go so she can date who she wants.
(c) To warn her about Hogan.
(d) To tell her father.

5. Joe thinks a lot of guys go to war because of this.
(a) Shame.
(b) To get away from a wife.
(c) To see another country.
(d) Getting to kill.

6. What does Joe feel under all of his bandages?
(a) Itching.
(b) Feeling a burning sensation.
(c) Sweating.
(d) Coolness.

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

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

9. Why is Joe not too upset about being deaf?
(a) His brother can't yell at him.
(b) His girlfriend can't nag him.
(c) He won't be able to hear the war.
(d) He didn't like music.

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

11. How does Joe feel about Harper as he is on his way back home from the desert?
(a) He shouldn't have told Joe.
(b) He's too good a friend to lose over a woman.
(c) He might have been telling the truth.
(d) He's probably dating Diane too.

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

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

14. What does Joe wish as he goes to bed?
(a) That he had a dog.
(b) They would take him out and shoot him.
(c) That Diane knew he was home.
(d) That his mother would talk with him about Diane.

15. What does Joe weep about for the first time?
(a) His mother's death.
(b) Working in the desert.
(c) Going to war.
(d) A girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bonham think he is dying?

2. How does Joe finally get fired?

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

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

5. What does Superintendent of School Hargraves say about the airplane?

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