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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe finally do after thinking about a lottery?
(a) Tries to cry.
(b) Kills himself.
(c) Rolls over.
(d) Calms down and thinks.

2. Where did Joe and his father go camping when he was young?
(a) In Utah.
(b) Near the Canadian border.
(c) At the national forest near their house.
(d) In the high pine and lake country.

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

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

5. Why are Joe and Howie laying track in the desert?
(a) They need money for school.
(b) They want to build up their muscles.
(c) Things were out of control at home.
(d) His father got him the job.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Joe weep about for the first time?

3. What is Jose's ethnic background?

4. After he finds out he has no mouth, teeth or palate what does he realize?

5. What did his girlfriend ask him when he was drafted?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Joe worry about loss of appetite?

2. Who does Joe call out to in his nightmare and why?

3. What book did Joe read that gave him a nightmare and what was that nightmare?

4. What are the two problems Jose talks to the guys at the bakery about?

5. Why does Joe wish someone would pick up the phone and what happens when they do?

6. What idea does Pinky Carson come up with for Jose and how does that work out?

7. What does Joe think about guys fighting for liberty?

8. Why does Howie wake Joe up after working all day on the railroad?

9. Describe the scene at the rail station when Joe is leaving for the army.

10. How does Joe feel about the nurse bathing him?

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