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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does his girlfriend's father do in the morning on his departure day?
(a) Gives him a haircut.
(b) Makes him breakfast.
(c) Gives him his old army jacket.
(d) Takes him to a restaurant.

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

3. Why does Joe think he is masked?
(a) They haven't taken off the bandages yet.
(b) To keep infection down.
(c) So his face will heal.
(d) So the nurses won't have to look at him.

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

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

6. Joe would think he was dead except why?
(a) He can't see anyone else.
(b) He can feel his breathing.
(c) He shouldn't go to hell and where he is must be hell.
(d) He is thinking and curious.

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

8. What do some of the soldiers in France do that are too scared to talk?
(a) Act like dogs.
(b) Scream all night.
(c) Go catatonic.
(d) Talk like a two year old.

9. After he finds out he has no mouth, teeth or palate what does he realize?
(a) He can't find his tongue.
(b) He is dead.
(c) He can't swallow.
(d) He is hungry.

10. What did his parents use when they were courting?
(a) A party line telephone.
(b) Sending messages with friends.
(c) Notes passed by their parents.
(d) A bulletin board at school.

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

12. Why does Bonham think he is dying?
(a) He is hot and shaky.
(b) He is being ignored by the hospital staff.
(c) No one can lose so much of oneself and live.
(d) He wants to die so he denies he can live.

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

14. How does Joe feel about Harper as he is on his way back home from the desert?
(a) He's probably dating Diane too.
(b) He's too good a friend to lose over a woman.
(c) He might have been telling the truth.
(d) He shouldn't have told Joe.

15. What does Joe decide when he first figures out he has no arms?
(a) He will have to have a patient wife.
(b) He can use his mouth.
(c) He can learn to use his legs.
(d) He can get hooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the biggest event of the year in Joe's hometown?

2. What does Joe finally do after thinking about a lottery?

3. When does the first snowfall usually happen where Joe grew up?

4. What is Jose's ethnic background?

5. Why won't the doctors kill Joe now?

(see the answer keys)

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