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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens when Joe tries to yell?
(a) His larynx is gone.
(b) He has a sore throat.
(c) He has no tongue.
(d) He realizes he has no mouth.

3. Joe thinks a lot of guys go to war because of this.
(a) To get away from a wife.
(b) Getting to kill.
(c) To see another country.
(d) Shame.

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

5. Why does Bonham think he is dying?
(a) He is being ignored by the hospital staff.
(b) He is hot and shaky.
(c) He wants to die so he denies he can live.
(d) No one can lose so much of oneself and live.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Joe and Howie laying track in the desert?

2. How does Joe know time has passed?

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

4. Why won't the doctors kill Joe now?

5. Where did Joe and his father go camping when he was young?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Joe think he is dying and why does he know he is alive?

2. How does Joe realize he has no left arm and how does he feel about it?

3. Why does Joe think being the way he is is worse than being in the womb?

4. Why doesn't Joe worry about loss of appetite?

5. When did Joe become aware of the war and what events in the war occurred at that time?

6. What does Joe think about guys fighting for liberty?

7. Describe how Joe is feeling while working in the desert.

8. When is Joe's birthday; how did they celebrate; and what present did Glen give him one year? What came a few months after that present?

9. What idea does Pinky Carson come up with for Jose and how does that work out?

10. What does Joe see on the way home from the train station?

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