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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What did Joe think when he read THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII?
(a) That it must have been awful for the people.
(b) A mountain had blown up trapping him in the lava.
(c) It was a quick, easy way to die.
(d) That he would never live near a volcano.

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

10. What is the biggest event of the year in Joe's hometown?
(a) The harvest.
(b) The County Fair.
(c) Easter.
(d) Christmas.

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

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

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

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

15. What is happening in Joe's mind as he lays in bed?
(a) All his memories are melting together.
(b) He hasn't got enough of a mind to think.
(c) He is still in the foxhole.
(d) He thinks about when he's going to leave the hospital.