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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe realize when he asks Jose to come closer to him?
(a) Jose is dead.
(b) He's been dreaming.
(c) Jose can't walk either.
(d) Jose is in Germany.

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

3. What did Joe's father ask him when he arrives at home?
(a) If he is staying in for the night.
(b) If he can go to the store.
(c) Where Diane is.
(d) Why he worked only one day on the rail job.

4. 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.

5. How much did the bread sacks Joe lifted at the bakery weigh?
(a) 90 pounds.
(b) 50 pounds.
(c) 100 pounds.
(d) 30 pounds.

6. When does the first snowfall usually happen where Joe grew up?
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) Valentine's Day.
(c) New Years Day.
(d) Christmas.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What happened to the coal miner who returned home badly wounded?
(a) He fell into a coal mine.
(b) His wife killed him.
(c) He shot himself.
(d) He died from eating an apple.

13. What does Joe go to the store for on Saturdays?
(a) Buy hamburgers for dinner.
(b) To buy candy for his sisters.
(c) To bring his father home.
(d) Buy his mother soap.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Joe trying to stop?

5. What happened to Joe's left arm?

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