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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Joe wonder about when he thinks of the foxhole?
(a) Whether it was American bombs.
(b) How the Germans found them.
(c) The other guys in it.
(d) What hit them.

6. What does Joe say he is as far as a lottery for life?
(a) One in ten million loser.
(b) A lucky winner.
(c) One in a million loser.
(d) Someone who didn't buy a ticket.

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

8. What is Joe trying to figure out how to tell his father when they go camping?
(a) He wants to go hunting.
(b) He hates to camp.
(c) He hates to fish.
(d) Bill Harper is coming to fish with Joe.

9. What did his girlfriend ask him when he was drafted?
(a) Not to go.
(b) To run away to Mexico.
(c) To carry her scarf.
(d) To go to Canada.

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

11. How many days has Joe been sick in his life?
(a) Three times.
(b) Once.
(c) Twice.
(d) Never.

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

13. What is Jose's ethnic background?
(a) Italian.
(b) Puerto Rican.
(c) Mexican.
(d) German.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Joe think you die for in war?

3. In what month is Joe's birthday?

4. What does Joe want the nurses to do so he doesn't feel like he's drowning?

5. What does Joe see when he walks by Diane's house?

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