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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe want the nurses to do so he doesn't feel like he's drowning?
(a) To put him in a chair.
(b) To prop him up.
(c) To wipe the sweat off his face.
(d) To lay him out flat.

2. What does Joe think about the fact that they cut off his arm?
(a) He still has the right arm.
(b) He can always walk.
(c) He's glad it wasn't his right arm.
(d) They should have asked him first.

3. Why doesn't Joe get tired?
(a) He's no longer working.
(b) That part of his brain was damaged.
(c) He has no arms or legs to move.
(d) He can't tell when it's night.

4. What does Joe wish as he goes to bed?
(a) That he had a dog.
(b) That Diane knew he was home.
(c) That his mother would talk with him about Diane.
(d) They would take him out and shoot him.

5. Why is Joe not too upset about being deaf?
(a) He didn't like music.
(b) He won't be able to hear the war.
(c) His girlfriend can't nag him.
(d) His brother can't yell at him.

6. What does Joe think about his head as he lays in the bed?
(a) The shell should have hit his head.
(b) It is too heavy.
(c) It is too badly injured for him to live.
(d) It is too messed up.

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

8. What happened to the coal miner who returned home badly wounded?
(a) He fell into a coal mine.
(b) His wife killed him.
(c) He died from eating an apple.
(d) He shot himself.

9. When does Joe become aware of the war?
(a) When his father is called up.
(b) When he is drafted.
(c) When he hears it on the radio.
(d) When they move to Los Angeles.

10. How does Joe finally get fired?
(a) He pushes over a cart of blueberry pies.
(b) He burns up a thousand hot cross buns.
(c) He slaps the boss.
(d) He asks the boss's daughter out.

11. What does Joe want to do most as he is lying in bed injured?
(a) To hear someone talk.
(b) To get up and walk.
(c) To go home.
(d) To die.

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

13. When does the first snowfall usually happen where Joe grew up?
(a) New Years Day.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) Valentine's Day.
(d) Christmas.

14. What does Joe finally realize towards the end of Chapter 3?
(a) He has lost both arms.
(b) He can't move his legs.
(c) He is in America.
(d) He has lost his mother's letter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joe feel about the war?

2. In what month is Joe's birthday?

3. What does Joe think would be wonderful when he was thinking about the nurse and the rat?

4. What does Joe go to the store for on Saturdays?

5. Joe would think he was dead except why?

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