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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Thomas told back at the hospital?
(a) His lungs will take a few weeks to totally recover.
(b) He must go home because his lungs are too injured.
(c) His lungs are slightly compromised.
(d) He is healthy.

2. Where are Thomas, Charlie, and their local friends sent?
(a) To the front.
(b) To a special training school.
(c) To another unit.
(d) On leave.

3. What does Hanley order the men to do?
(a) Wait for nightfall and then retreat.
(b) Stay put.
(c) Retreat immediately.
(d) Continue pursuing the Germans.

4. Why is Charlie sent home?
(a) To recover from a bad burn.
(b) To recover from inhaling mustard gas.
(c) To recover from a wound to his head.
(d) To recover from a foot wound.

5. What seems to be briefly forgotten right after Big Joe is found?
(a) Grandma Wolf.
(b) Old grudges.
(c) Bertha.
(d) Big Joe's irritating behaviors.

6. What does Thomas wonder when they are first in the German's lines?
(a) Where everyone is.
(b) Why it is so neat.
(c) How the Germans manage to have dry trenches.
(d) Why their food smells so much better than theirs.

7. On what day does Thomas say he was born?
(a) September 5.
(b) October 5.
(c) July 22.
(d) January 1.

8. What does Molly bring with her when she comes to visit Charlie at his house?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A note from her parents.
(c) Her luggage.
(d) A kitten.

9. What happens when Thomas falls?
(a) He lands on a dead man in his company.
(b) He avoids being shot.
(c) He breaks his foot.
(d) His mask comes off slightly and he gets a whiff of the gas.

10. Why do the Germans begin to bombard their former trenches?
(a) To drive the Allies back.
(b) To explode the abandoned ammunition.
(c) They do not bombard their former trenches.
(d) To ruin the trenches.

11. Once Thomas is back from leave, how far does the wave of advancing Germans get when the shelling stops?
(a) To the middle of the back lines.
(b) Into the Allied trenches.
(c) Not even to the barbed wire.
(d) They do not push forward.

12. Where is the company ordered on the third day?
(a) On the firesteps.
(b) To fall back to a new line of trenches.
(c) To stay in the trenches.
(d) To move forward to meet the Germans.

13. How does the Colonel threaten Thomas' family?
(a) He says he will force Big Joe into an institution if Charlie does not enlist.
(b) He says he will raise their rent if Charlie keeps telling lies about the Colonel.
(c) He does not threaten the family because he's in love with Thomas' mother.
(d) He says he will kick them out of the cottage if Charlie does not enlist.

14. What do Charlie and Thomas find when they return from work one day?
(a) The Colonel is dead.
(b) Grandma Wolf is dead.
(c) Their mother is ill.
(d) Molly is there.

15. Where does Thomas aim?
(a) He tries to make every bullet count.
(b) He does not aim.
(c) He aims towards the greatest concentration of the enemy.
(d) He aims over the heads of the German soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Charlie feel about what Molly tells him?

2. How old does the Army think Thomas is?

3. What caused most of the casualties?

4. What does the sergeant tell Charlie?

5. What makes Thomas feel terribly empty while he is on leave?

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