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

2. How does Joe feel about Harper as he is on his way back home from the desert?
(a) He's too good a friend to lose over a woman.
(b) He might have been telling the truth.
(c) He's probably dating Diane too.
(d) He shouldn't have told Joe.

3. 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 Utah.
(d) In the high pine and lake country.

4. What skill do Joe and his friends master?
(a) Hunting deer and elk.
(b) Asking a girl on a date.
(c) Smoking cigarettes with style.
(d) Dancing with the girls.

5. What did his girlfriend ask him when he was drafted?
(a) To run away to Mexico.
(b) Not to go.
(c) To carry her scarf.
(d) To go to Canada.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When he wants to kill himself by not breathing what does he find out?

3. What does Joe weep about for the first time?

4. What is Joe trying to stop?

5. What is Joe trying to figure out how to tell his father when they go camping?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does he worry about a ring? What kind of ring is it and who gave it to him?

2. Describe the scene at Joe's parents house when he arrives home after his father died.

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

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

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

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

7. What does Joe want to stop and why?

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

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

10. Who is the pilot who comes to Joe's hometown, what does he do and what does the superintendent of schools say about airplanes?

(see the answer keys)

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