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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nearly Four O'clock.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Charlie and Thomas do every Saturday until Christmas Eve?
(a) Play cards with their mother.
(b) Clean out the dog kennels at the Colonel's house.
(c) Write essays on morality.
(d) Go to mass.

2. What do Charlie, Thomas, and the rest of the trainees think of the war during boot camp?
(a) As glorious.
(b) As immoral.
(c) As a necessary evil.
(d) As a distant thing.

3. For what does the Colonel think Charlie should be held accountable?
(a) The time Charlie did not work the day before when he stole Bertha.
(b) The loss of the Colonel's best fishing rod.
(c) The loss of the Colonel's best pair of fencing cutters.
(d) Charlie's thieving ways.

4. Where does Thomas go after putting on his gas mask?
(a) The barbed wire fencing.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The trenches.
(d) The firestep.

5. What does Hanley tell his men?
(a) They performed admirably.
(b) They now have practice with dealing with gas.
(c) They are all cowards.
(d) They have disgraced their unit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Charlie sent home?

2. How much does Charlie's mother give the Colonel for Bertha?

3. Where does Grandma Wolf move?

4. What does Thomas think at first as they fire at the oncoming Germans?

5. What are Charlie and Thomas glad to leave behind?

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