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Book Two: The Living
 * Reading Questions for Johnny Got his Gun Part Two

Directions:** Answer all questions completely on a separate piece of paper. Refer back to your text to make sure you have accurate responses. All answers are due on the dates given to you by your teacher.

Chapter 11 1. What is Joe doing when this chapter opens? 2. He realizes that what is the only thing that he has left? 3. Joe realizes that if he can keep track of what he can get a hold of himself and keep himself in the world? 4. Joe says that there is no just thing as what when you are unconscious? 5. How does Joe learn to distinguish when it is daytime?

Chapter 12 1. How does Joe learn to tell the nurses apart? 2. How does he communicate with the nurses at first? 3. What country is the hospital located in? 4. Explain who Lazarus is? 5. What happens to the 18 year-old soldier who falls into Lazarus?

Chapter 13 1. What happens to Joe during his third year in the hospital? 2. Joe becomes frantic when he senses through vibrations that four to five men are gathered around his bed. What does he do? 3. Why does Joe become very angry when he realizes that they have pinned a medal on his chest? 4. What does Joe do that makes the men leave? 5. Joe realizes that he might be able to communicate with the world by tapping out Morris Code with his head. What does the first nurse do when he tries to communicate in this manner?

Chapter 14 1. Why does Joe loose track of time? 2. Who is Ruby? 3. Who is Laurette and what does she send to Joe when he graduates from high school? 4. What does he realize that every nation expects from their men? 5. For what does Joe pray?

Chapter 15 1. Joe is so consumed with tapping that he says he understands what? 2. He gets to thinking that the nurse is trying to do what to him? 3. Joe compares his mutilated body to what? 4. How does the doctor try to stop Joe from tapping? 5. What does Joe think the nurses and doctors are all plotting to do?

Chapter 16 1. What does Joe hear at first when he begins to loose his sense of reality? 2. He hears a woman calling for her son. Who is the son that is being called for? 3. He imagines himself in a room with 4-5 other guys and Christ. What are they all doing? 4. What is going to happen to all of the guys in this group? 5. The group all boards a train headed to where?

Chapter 17 1. What is the exciting thing that happens to Joe at the beginning of this chapter? 2. The nurse traces a design on Joe’s chest. What is this design? 3. What effect does her tracing this design on his chest have on Joe? 4. What poem did Joe’s mother read to his family every Christmas? 5. What would she read after she had read the poem?

Chapters 18-20 1.What does the nurse do when she finally understands that Joe is tapping out Morris Code with his head? 2. How does Joe feel when he finally realizes that he has broken through to the nurse? 3. A man returns and taps out what message on Joe’s head? 4. Joe realizes that he want to get out of the hospital and then realizes that he will have to earn money somehow to pay for his care. How does Joe purpose to make this money? 5. The man leaves and then returns and taps a message on Joe’s head. What does the man tell Joe?