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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does his girlfriend's father tell him to do the night before he leaves?
(a) To marry his daughter.
(b) To get some sleep.
(c) To take her to bed.
(d) To get his daughter with child.

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

4. What do the doctors consider Joe to be?
(a) A thinking person.
(b) Another casuality of war.
(c) They don't think about him at all.
(d) An interesting problem.

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

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

7. What does Joe think about his head as he lays in the bed?
(a) It is too heavy.
(b) It is too badly injured for him to live.
(c) The shell should have hit his head.
(d) It is too messed up.

8. What does Joe think he should have done about Diane instead rushing out to work in the desert?
(a) Forgiven her.
(b) Found another girl.
(c) Moved to New York.
(d) Beaten up Hogan.

9. What does Joe think war is for the doctors?
(a) They are indifferent to it.
(b) Interesting.
(c) Horrible.
(d) Wonderful.

10. What does Joe decide when he first figures out he has no arms?
(a) He can use his mouth.
(b) He will have to have a patient wife.
(c) He can get hooks.
(d) He can learn to use his legs.

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

12. How does Joe figure he can communicate since he is deaf?
(a) He will use telepathy.
(b) With sign language.
(c) In writing.
(d) He can still talk.

13. Why does Joe think he is masked?
(a) To keep infection down.
(b) So his face will heal.
(c) They haven't taken off the bandages yet.
(d) So the nurses won't have to look at him.

14. What type of musical instrument does Joe's mother play?
(a) Cello.
(b) Piano.
(c) Organ.
(d) Violin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe do when he finally realizes the full extent of his injuries?

2. How many days has Joe been sick in his life?

3. What does Joe think would be wonderful when he was thinking about the nurse and the rat?

4. Why does Joe Bonham wish someone would pick up the phone?

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

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