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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the company huddle in their trenches for two straight days?
(a) The snow is too bad to go out.
(b) The Germans are patrolling in tanks.
(c) They are being bombed.
(d) They are told to hide.

2. What happens to Hanley?
(a) He returns to the trench where Charlie and Thomas are.
(b) He is captured.
(c) He is badly wounded.
(d) He is killed.

3. What does Molly tell Charlie?
(a) Her family forgives Charlie.
(b) She is marrying someone else.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is moving.

4. Where are Thomas, Charlie, and their local friends sent?
(a) To another unit.
(b) To the front.
(c) On leave.
(d) To a special training school.

5. Once Thomas is back from leave, how far does the wave of advancing Germans get when the shelling stops?
(a) Into the Allied trenches.
(b) Not even to the barbed wire.
(c) They do not push forward.
(d) To the middle of the back lines.

6. Where are Thomas, Charlie, Hanley, and a dozen or so other men?
(a) In one trench that is left on the front lines.
(b) In a concrete bunker in no-man's land.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) In the first line of German trenches.

7. What happens when the Germans reach the barbed wire?
(a) They cut it with field pliers.
(b) They are slaughtered almost to a man.
(c) They get caught in it and surrender.
(d) They retreat.

8. What does the sergeant tell Charlie?
(a) Charlie will be shot if he disobeys an order.
(b) Charlie is ordered to take Thomas for medical help.
(c) Charlie is ordered to take out the left gun's emplacement.
(d) Charlie is ordered to stay and cover the other soldier's retreat.

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

10. Why can't Thomas go anywhere?
(a) He is blind.
(b) He is wounded too badly.
(c) They are surrounded by the enemy.
(d) His leg is broken.

11. What is Thomas told back at the hospital?
(a) He must go home because his lungs are too injured.
(b) His lungs are slightly compromised.
(c) His lungs will take a few weeks to totally recover.
(d) He is healthy.

12. What does Thomas say he plans to do?
(a) Lie about his age and enlist.
(b) Never go to war.
(c) Take over Charlie's job at the farm after Charlie enlists.
(d) Beat up the Colonel.

13. How does Thomas manage to get accepted?
(a) Thomas just sqeaks in over the age limit.
(b) The Colonel intervenes on Thomas' behalf.
(c) The Sergeant Major turns a blind eye to Thomas' age.
(d) They lie about his age.

14. What are Charlie and Thomas glad to leave behind?
(a) A couple women who persistently try to seduce them.
(b) Kitchen duty.
(c) Hanley.
(d) Two of their squad members who are mean.

15. What does Thomas do at work that is different?
(a) Take assignments that gets him away from Charlie.
(b) He asks for all the dangerous assignments.
(c) He no longer sings while working.
(d) He no longer enjoys his work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Thomas see when he returns from leave?

2. How long does Thomas wait hoping Charlie appears?

3. What happens when the Germans go into retreat?

4. Who else suffers as a result of Charlie's refusal?

5. What does Thomas see when he makes it into the main trench?

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