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

2. How does Joe figure out that he is deaf?
(a) He can't hear his pulse.
(b) He can't hear the doctors.
(c) He can't hear his mother.
(d) He can's hear any music.

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

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

5. What does Joe think about his head as he lays in the bed?
(a) The shell should have hit his head.
(b) It is too badly injured for him to live.
(c) It is too messed up.
(d) It is too heavy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Howie wake Joe up when they have gone to bed for the night?

2. What does Joe realize when he tries to kick the blankets off?

3. Joe would think he was dead except why?

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

5. What does Joe wish as he goes to bed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How far does Joe walk to get to the bakery and how much money does he make?

3. 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?

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

5. Where does Joe see Jose while he's lying in bed, what does he ask him and what does Joe figure out?

6. What doesn't Joe understand about being alive?

7. Describe the scene at the rail station when Joe is leaving for the army.

8. Who does Joe call out to in his nightmare and why?

9. How does Joe think he might be able to tell being awake and asleep with no eyes?

10. What does Joe want to stop and why?

(see the answer keys)

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