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

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

3. 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.

4. Why does Joe think he is masked?
(a) To keep infection down.
(b) So the nurses won't have to look at him.
(c) They haven't taken off the bandages yet.
(d) So his face will heal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Joe get tired?

2. What does Joe think would be wonderful when he was thinking about the nurse and the rat?

3. Why is Joe not too upset about being deaf?

4. Where is the desert in which Joe is working?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Joe come to know he has no face?

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

9. What does Joe think when he thinks of his family and what does he see as the reality?

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

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