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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) They don't think about him at all.
(b) An interesting problem.
(c) A thinking person.
(d) Another casuality of war.

2. Why are Joe and Howie laying track in the desert?
(a) They need money for school.
(b) Things were out of control at home.
(c) His father got him the job.
(d) They want to build up their muscles.

3. 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 warn her about Hogan.
(d) To tell her father.

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

5. After he finds out he has no mouth, teeth or palate what does he realize?
(a) He can't swallow.
(b) He is hungry.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He can't find his tongue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the biggest event of the year in Joe's hometown?

2. How does Joe feel about Harper as he is on his way back home from the desert?

3. What does Joe think about the fact that they cut off his arm?

4. What does Joe think he has to do first in order to kill himself?

5. What does Superintendent of School Hargraves say about the airplane?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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 think when he thinks of his family and what does he see as the reality?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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