question: Youngsters who thought they could take on the whole army and win , the ones who laughed loudly , jocked around and looked sheepish when an officer came to complain about the noise . Ratchet had seen them start fighting seriously , he had seen some of them die on the battlefield and later in the Medbay because it was too late . He had seen them dying in the hallways because they had been deemed doomed by the people in charge of triage . Oh , how he hated that ... Those that survived ... he had seen their optics becoming harder , their faces becoming blank , he had seen the jokes die on their lips .

OPTIONS:
- How the joke , literally , died on their lips and they had never seen it coming .
- How those same young men were so carefree were then dying and injured soon after .
- None of the above choices .
- How the youngsters never knew how to fight seriously because joked too much .
Q: What might Ratchet be trying to reconcile in the story ?

answer: How those same young men were so carefree were then dying and injured soon after .

question: Lots of subtlety happening ( like how many people caught that the Joker knows who Batman really is ) . I 'll probably end up asking for the DVD for Xmas . Then we had dinner at Red Robin . I 'll leave it at I only tipped 10 % . That 's rare for me . So that left today to make up for all my avoiding work .

OPTIONS:
- None of the above choices .
- Excellent service .
- Bad service .
- Not enough money .
Q: What may be the reason for leaving that amount for a tip ?

answer: Bad service .

question: I could see them now clear as day . Maybe , if I could just hold on to them long enough to make them make sense I could save us all . Savior they would call me . The words lay on the floor like fish on the deck of a boat , gasping for meaning .

OPTIONS:
- I would save all of us .
- None of the above choices .
- I would save me .
- I would save them .
Q: What may happen if I could hold on to them long enough ?

answer:
I would save all of us .