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

2. What does Joe think is his duty towards Diane?
(a) To marry her.
(b) To warn her about Hogan.
(c) To tell her father.
(d) To let her go so she can date who she wants.

3. What does Joe think he should have done about Diane instead rushing out to work in the desert?
(a) Moved to New York.
(b) Beaten up Hogan.
(c) Found another girl.
(d) Forgiven her.

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

5. What does Joe see in the snow as he thinks of his life?
(a) His brother throwing snowballs at him.
(b) His sisters building a snowman.
(c) The branches of the trees covered in white.
(d) His father pulling his mother on a sled.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe finally do after thinking about a lottery?

2. What does Glen Hogan give Joe for his birthday one year?

3. What kind of flowers do the kids gather for May Day?

4. What do the doctors consider Joe to be?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two problems Jose talks to the guys at the bakery about?

2. What does Joe want to stop and why?

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

4. How does Joe feel about the nurse bathing him?

5. What book did Joe read that gave him a nightmare and what was that nightmare?

6. 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?

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

8. As Joe's pain fades some what does he think about and how does he feel about being deaf?

9. Why does Joe wish someone would pick up the phone and what happens when they do?

10. Why does Howie wake Joe up after working all day on the railroad?

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