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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the workers tell Jose to do?
(a) Spit in the bread dough in front of the boss.
(b) Knock the boss over.
(c) Drop a bunch of pies.
(d) Leave the water running in the kitchen.

2. Where did Joe and his father go camping when he was young?
(a) In Utah.
(b) In the high pine and lake country.
(c) At the national forest near their house.
(d) Near the Canadian border.

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

4. What does Joe weep about for the first time?
(a) His mother's death.
(b) Working in the desert.
(c) A girl.
(d) Going to war.

5. How does Joe feel about the war?
(a) He thinks it will be interesting.
(b) He's ready to go.
(c) He doesn't have an opinion.
(d) He doesn't think it has anything to do with him.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Joe do when Harper tells him Diane went out with Hogan?
(a) Gets drunk.
(b) Asks Diane if it is the truth.
(c) Goes after Hogan.
(d) Hit him and call him a liar.

11. Why is Joe not too upset about being deaf?
(a) He didn't like music.
(b) His brother can't yell at him.
(c) His girlfriend can't nag him.
(d) He won't be able to hear the war.

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

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

14. What does Joe think is the only important thing he has left?
(a) Being awake.
(b) Feeling the nurse.
(c) Thinking clearly.
(d) Having his mother there.

15. What does Joe decide when he figures out he's deaf?
(a) He won't have to listen to his wife nag.
(b) He can get a hearing aid.
(c) He can learn to read lips.
(d) He didn't like music anyway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of musical instrument does Joe's mother play?

2. How does Joe figure out that he is deaf?

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

4. What did his girlfriend ask him when he was drafted?

5. Why does Joe think he is masked?

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