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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Charlie and Thomas sleep at their new assignment?
(a) Standing up.
(b) In foxholes.
(c) In small bunkers.
(d) In barrels cut in half.

2. Where is the company ordered on the third day?
(a) To move forward to meet the Germans.
(b) To stay in the trenches.
(c) To fall back to a new line of trenches.
(d) On the firesteps.

3. What does Thomas see when he makes it into the main trench?
(a) One of the men from his home is dead.
(b) There are six dead Germans and none of the English is harmed.
(c) Everyone except Charlie are wounded in some way.
(d) The first German they saw is dead.

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

5. What is the outcome of the trial?
(a) Charlie is found not guilty.
(b) Charlie does not have a trial.
(c) Charlie is sentenced to death.
(d) Charlie is sentenced to ten years at hard labor.

6. Who does Thomas go to see on leave?
(a) Charlie.
(b) Anna.
(c) His friend who is still recovering from wounds.
(d) No one.

7. What does the German soldier tell Thomas when he aims a gun to Thomas' head?
(a) Run.
(b) Pray.
(c) You're dead.
(d) Sorry.

8. What does Thomas wonder when they are first in the German's lines?
(a) Where everyone is.
(b) Why their food smells so much better than theirs.
(c) Why it is so neat.
(d) How the Germans manage to have dry trenches.

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

10. On what day does Charlie say he was born?
(a) January 1.
(b) October 5.
(c) June 2.
(d) November 22.

11. What does Thomas see as he is making his way out of the hospital?
(a) Many soldiers retching.
(b) Crying nurses.
(c) Lots of dead, gassed soldiers.
(d) Lines of men waiting for medical care.

12. How does the Colonel threaten Thomas' family?
(a) He says he will raise their rent if Charlie keeps telling lies about the Colonel.
(b) He says he will force Big Joe into an institution if Charlie does not enlist.
(c) He does not threaten the family because he's in love with Thomas' mother.
(d) He says he will kick them out of the cottage if Charlie does not enlist.

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

14. What does Thomas do when he gets to a trench further back from the front lines?
(a) Retches.
(b) Cries.
(c) Shakes uncontrollably.
(d) Falls unconscious.

15. Who does Thomas see when he returns from leave?
(a) Charlie.
(b) Hanley.
(c) A boy his age who he went to school with.
(d) Anna's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What seems to be briefly forgotten right after Big Joe is found?

2. How does Charlie feel about what Molly tells him?

3. What happens when the Germans reach the barbed wire?

4. How long is Charlie's trial?

5. How does Thomas manage to get accepted?

(see the answer keys)

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