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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 prop him up.
(c) To lay him out flat.
(d) To put him in a chair.

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

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

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

6. What does Joe realize that he can't tell the difference between?
(a) Hot and cold.
(b) Night and day.
(c) Dreaming and being awake.
(d) Pain and feeling good.

7. What does Joe think is crawling on him?
(a) A cockroach.
(b) A snake.
(c) A mosquito.
(d) A trench rat.

8. 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.

9. What did the doctors use to put in a window of a guy who had his stomach blown away?
(a) Silk.
(b) A graft from his brother.
(c) Cadaver skin.
(d) Pig's skin.

10. What does Joe want to do most as he is lying in bed injured?
(a) To go home.
(b) To get up and walk.
(c) To hear someone talk.
(d) To die.

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

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

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

14. 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 feel his breathing.
(c) He can't see anyone else.
(d) He is thinking and curious.

15. How does Joe figure out that he is deaf?
(a) He can't hear his mother.
(b) He can't hear his pulse.
(c) He can't hear the doctors.
(d) He can's hear any music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What skill do Joe and his friends master?

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

3. What is Joe trying to stop?

4. What did Joe hear about Harper and his fortunes in the war?

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

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