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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 decide when he figures out he's deaf?
(a) He can get a hearing aid.
(b) He won't have to listen to his wife nag.
(c) He didn't like music anyway.
(d) He can learn to read lips.

2. What famous person flies into Joe's hometown one day?
(a) Daredevil pilot Lincoln Beechy.
(b) Amelia Earhart.
(c) David Grintings.
(d) Charles Lindbergh.

3. Why doesn't Joe get tired?
(a) That part of his brain was damaged.
(b) He has no arms or legs to move.
(c) He can't tell when it's night.
(d) He's no longer working.

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

5. How does Joe figure he can communicate since he is deaf?
(a) He will use telepathy.
(b) With sign language.
(c) In writing.
(d) He can still talk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Joe hear about Harper and his fortunes in the war?

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

3. What did Joe think when he read THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII?

4. What does Joe think is crawling on him?

5. What did his parents use when they were courting?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Joe think guys should do when called up for the military?

3. What does Joe want to stop and why?

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

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

6. What does Joe think about doctors and war?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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