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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe find out when someone finally answers the phone?
(a) His father has died.
(b) His mother has died.
(c) His girlfriend is in the hospital.
(d) His younger sister is gone.

2. What does Joe see in the snow as he thinks of his life?
(a) His father pulling his mother on a sled.
(b) The branches of the trees covered in white.
(c) His brother throwing snowballs at him.
(d) His sisters building a snowman.

3. What does Joe wonder about when he thinks of the foxhole?
(a) The other guys in it.
(b) What hit them.
(c) How the Germans found them.
(d) Whether it was American bombs.

4. What is the biggest event of the year in Joe's hometown?
(a) The County Fair.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Easter.
(d) The harvest.

5. What did his girlfriend ask him when he was drafted?
(a) To go to Canada.
(b) To run away to Mexico.
(c) Not to go.
(d) To carry her scarf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does his girlfriend's father do in the morning on his departure day?

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

3. What kind of flowers do the kids gather for May Day?

4. How does Joe feel about the war?

5. Where did Joe and his friends swim in Colorado?

(see the answer key)

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