2. What happened to Joe's left arm?
(a) It was burned badly.
(b) It was broken.
(c) It was amputated at the elbow.
(d) It was cut off at the shoulder.

3. What is Joe trying to stop?
(a) From thinking.
(b) From wondering where he is.
(c) All the fading, rushing, smothering, sinking, and rising.
(d) From wanting to see his mother.

4. What does Joe decide when he figures out he's deaf?
(a) He can learn to read lips.
(b) He can get a hearing aid.
(c) He won't have to listen to his wife nag.
(d) He didn't like music anyway.

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

6. What is Joe trying to figure out how to tell his father when they go camping?
(a) He hates to camp.
(b) Bill Harper is coming to fish with Joe.
(c) He hates to fish.
(d) He wants to go hunting.

7. What minor injury does Joe think about?
(a) A bruise on the back of his head.
(b) A hole in his side.
(c) Joe has only major injuries.
(d) A scrap on his stomach.

8. What did Joe's father ask him when he arrives at home?
(a) Where Diane is.
(b) If he is staying in for the night.
(c) If he can go to the store.
(d) Why he worked only one day on the rail job.

9. What did Joe think when he read THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII?
(a) That it must have been awful for the people.
(b) It was a quick, easy way to die.
(c) That he would never live near a volcano.
(d) A mountain had blown up trapping him in the lava.

10. With what does Joe compare his situation right now?
(a) Being back in the womb.
(b) When his father died.
(c) Being stuck in bed with a broken leg.
(d) Losing his best friend.

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

12. Why doesn't Joe worry about lack of appetite?
(a) He doesn't like army food.
(b) They pump food in his stomach.
(c) He wants to die anyway.
(d) He wanted to lose weight.

13. What type of musical instrument does Joe's mother play?
(a) Organ.
(b) Piano.
(c) Cello.
(d) Violin.

14. Why does Joe think he may be lucky not having a nose?
(a) So it doesn't look funny with no mouth.
(b) So he can't smell himself.
(c) So he can't breath.
(d) He always thought his nose was too big.

15. What does Joe weep about for the first time?
(a) A girl.
(b) Going to war.
(c) His mother's death.
(d) Working in the desert.