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 * Reading Questions for Johnny Got his Gun Part 1

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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.


 * Book One: The Dead**

1. In Chapter One Johnny hears a phone ringing and it makes him recall what great loss in his life? 2. Why does Johnny feel his father is better off dead? 3. What sense does Johnny realize he has lost in this chapter? 4. What does he recall about his parents’ relationship. 5. What musical instrument does Johnny’s mother play?
 * Chapter One**

1. What are some of the things that Johnny’s mother did in the kitchen? 2. What is the special time that Johnny shared with his parents – one that his two younger sisters were too young to share? 3. Why did the Superintendent of Schools proclaim the airplane to be the greatest invention of all time? 4. Why did the family move from Shale City, Colorado to Los Angeles, California? 5. What three major events happened after the family’s move to Los Angeles?
 * Chapter Two**

1. Johnny has the sensation he is in what and fighting for his life? 2. What are the two things he worries about after he realizes they have cut off his left arm? 3. What do he and Kareen do the night before he leaves for the war and why? 4. What does the mayor say in his speech? 5. What makes Johnny realize that he has lost both of his arms?
 * Chapter Three**

1. Why do Johnny and his friend Howie take a job working on a railroad chain gang? 2. What is in the telegram that Howie receives? 3. Why does Johnny plan to make up with his best friend Bill? 4. What does Johnny see when he walks past Diane’s house? 5. What is the fate of Johnny friend Bill?
 * Chapter Four**

1. What does Johnny begin to see after the image of Kareen disappears? 2. What makes him want to die? 3. How does Johnny realize that he has no legs? 4. What are the other things that Johnny realizes he no longer has? 5. Who does Johnny call for to give him help? What does he ask that person to do?
 * Chapter Five**

1. Where did Johnny work before the war? How much did he earn a week? 2. Where does Jose want to work? 3. What story does Jose tell his fellow bakery workers that they do not believe until he receives a letter confirming that the story is true? 4. Why does Jose want to get fired? 5. What does Jose do before and after he dumps the 180 pies?
 * Chapter Six**

1. How does Johnny desire his current physical state? 2. Why does Johnny reason that he did not bleed to death despite his massive injuries? 3. What does Johnny have on his face in addition to his massive wounds? 4. Why does Johnny try to roll over? 5. Briefly explain Johnny’s nightmare?
 * Chapter Seven**

1. How does Johnny plan to stop his nightmare from returning? 2. Johnny compares his entire life to what? 3. Johnny says all he has left is what?
 * Chapter Eight**

1. Why doesn’t Johnny want to go fishing with his father? 2. Why does Johnny worry after he and his friend Bill lose Johnny’s father’s fishing pole? 3. How do Johnny’s parents provide a good life for their children? 4. Why does Johnny consider his father a failure? 5. How does Johnny’s father react when he tells his father about the lost reel?
 * Chapter Nine**

1. Johnny says that he had no say in what? 2. Johnny says that life is more important than what? 3. What is the only thing that Johnny says is worth dying for? 4. Johnny compare himself to what? 5. What does Johnny say you should do if someone comes up and asks you to serve in a war?
 * Chapter Ten**