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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Joe and Howie laying track in the desert?
(a) Things were out of control at home.
(b) They need money for school.
(c) His father got him the job.
(d) They want to build up their muscles.

2. Why is Bill Bonham a failure?
(a) He can't make money.
(b) He doesn't hunt.
(c) He can't catch any fish.
(d) He can't feed his family.

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

4. What does his girlfriend's father do in the morning on his departure day?
(a) Makes him breakfast.
(b) Gives him his old army jacket.
(c) Gives him a haircut.
(d) Takes him to a restaurant.

5. How does Joe know time has passed?
(a) They's moved in to another place.
(b) His stumps have healed.
(c) By his daily bath.
(d) The nurse told him.

6. What happens when Joe tries to yell?
(a) He has no tongue.
(b) He has a sore throat.
(c) He realizes he has no mouth.
(d) His larynx is gone.

7. What does Jose want to know from the rest of the workers at the bakery?
(a) Where to get a map of Los Angeles.
(b) How to quit his job gracefully.
(c) How to drive a car.
(d) How to get into the movies.

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

9. What does Superintendent of School Hargraves say about the airplane?
(a) It's mankind's greatest step forward in a hundred years.
(b) Man wasn't made to fly.
(c) It's too noisy.
(d) It makes a lot of smoke and stinks.

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

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

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

13. What did Joe hear about Harper and his fortunes in the war?
(a) He was never drafted.
(b) He was injured and sent home.
(c) He was made a captain.
(d) He was killed.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Joe become aware of the war?

2. What kind of flowers do the kids gather for May Day?

3. What does Joe say he is as far as a lottery for life?

4. Why is Joe not too upset about being deaf?

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

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