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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe think about the fact that they cut off his arm?
(a) He's glad it wasn't his right arm.
(b) He can always walk.
(c) They should have asked him first.
(d) He still has the right arm.

2. What did his parents use when they were courting?
(a) Sending messages with friends.
(b) Notes passed by their parents.
(c) A party line telephone.
(d) A bulletin board at school.

3. What famous person flies into Joe's hometown one day?
(a) Amelia Earhart.
(b) Daredevil pilot Lincoln Beechy.
(c) Charles Lindbergh.
(d) David Grintings.

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

5. What does Joe see when he walks by Diane's house?
(a) Diane and her mother on the front porch.
(b) Diane sitting on the porch swing.
(c) Harper and Diane kissing.
(d) Hogan and Diane kissing.

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

7. What happened to Joe's left arm?
(a) It was amputated at the elbow.
(b) It was broken.
(c) It was cut off at the shoulder.
(d) It was burned badly.

8. Where did Joe and his friends swim in Colorado?
(a) At a lake.
(b) In the river.
(c) In a big ditch.
(d) A a swimming hole.

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

10. What minor injury does Joe think about?
(a) Joe has only major injuries.
(b) A scrap on his stomach.
(c) A bruise on the back of his head.
(d) A hole in his side.

11. Why doesn't Joe get tired?
(a) He can't tell when it's night.
(b) He's no longer working.
(c) That part of his brain was damaged.
(d) He has no arms or legs to move.

12. After he finds out he has no mouth, teeth or palate what does he realize?
(a) He is dead.
(b) He is hungry.
(c) He can't find his tongue.
(d) He can't swallow.

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

14. Why does Joe think he may be lucky not having a nose?
(a) So he can't smell himself.
(b) He always thought his nose was too big.
(c) So he can't breath.
(d) So it doesn't look funny with no mouth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month is Joe's birthday?

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

3. What did the doctors use to put in a window of a guy who had his stomach blown away?

4. Why does Bonham think he is dying?

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

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