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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 doctors consider Joe to be?
(a) An interesting problem.
(b) Another casuality of war.
(c) They don't think about him at all.
(d) A thinking person.

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

3. What kind of flowers do the kids gather for May Day?
(a) Roses.
(b) Daisies.
(c) Primroses.
(d) Tulips.

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

5. What does his girlfriend's father do in the morning on his departure day?
(a) Takes him to a restaurant.
(b) Makes him breakfast.
(c) Gives him a haircut.
(d) Gives him his old army jacket.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Joe decide when he figures out he's deaf?

3. What does Joe see in the snow as he thinks of his life?

4. What does Joe find out when someone finally answers the phone?

5. How does Joe figure he can communicate since he is deaf?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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