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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who pulls Thomas out?
(a) Charlie.
(b) Two of the soldiers in the trench with him.
(c) He digs himself out.
(d) Hanley.

3. On what day does Thomas say he was born?
(a) October 5.
(b) July 22.
(c) September 5.
(d) January 1.

4. Why do the Germans begin to bombard their former trenches?
(a) To explode the abandoned ammunition.
(b) To drive the Allies back.
(c) They do not bombard their former trenches.
(d) To ruin the trenches.

5. What happens when the Germans go into retreat?
(a) Thomas' company starts celebrating.
(b) Thomas' company stands in a stupor.
(c) Thomas' company is ordered to pursue.
(d) Thomas' company is ordered to stand down.

6. 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.

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

8. What does the new company commander know about fighting a war?
(a) Less than the regulars know.
(b) Quite a bit.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A lot as he rose through the ranks.

9. Where is Thomas' company sent next?
(a) The Wipers.
(b) To Italy.
(c) Back behind the front lines.
(d) To Southern France.

10. How old does the Army think Thomas is?
(a) 17.
(b) 18.
(c) 22.
(d) 16.

11. What does Charlie refuse to do?
(a) Jump through Hanley's hoops.
(b) Salute Hanley.
(c) Stay off the front lines.
(d) Split from Thomas.

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

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

14. How long does Thomas wait hoping Charlie appears?
(a) Several days.
(b) A night and day.
(c) A couple hours.
(d) A week.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in the next minute after the German soldier sees the English?

2. What does Hanley order the men to do?

3. Who does Thomas notice in town recruiting for the war?

4. What is the result of Charlie's refusal?

5. What does Thomas try not to do concerning Charlie or Molly?

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