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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. Why do some of the men move back frantically?
(a) fear of being killed outside of combat
(b) hurry to get medical attention
(c) anxous to find their friends
(d) looking for their lost weapons

2. How does Henry feel about the enemy?
(a) that they are better shots than the Union soldiers
(b) that there are so many of them
(c) that they never seem to tire
(d) that they give up too easily

3. What happens when Henry asks one of the soldiers what is happening?
(a) He is told to shut up and run.
(b) He is cursed as a deserter.
(c) He gets hit in the head with a rifle butt.
(d) He gets stabbed with a bayonet.

4. As the regiment weakens, what is the effect on the lieutenant?
(a) He is shot in the head.
(b) He stops giving orders.
(c) He is less enthusiastic.
(d) He falls off his horse.

5. What dangerous undertaking does Henry do after the flag bearer is killed?
(a) He runs into the trees to shoot whoever killed the flag bearer.
(b) He runs to inform the lieutenant.
(c) He takes charge of carrying the flag.
(d) He stands up and fires wildly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does his friend do to try and help Henry?

2. Who do Henry and his friend tell what they have overheard?

3. Coming to his senses, what does Henry realize?

4. When the colonel and other officers appear, what is he shouting?

5. After the battle is over when Henry distinguished himself, what do he and his friend attempt to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompts the regiment to drive on in the charge?

2. What does Henry do to prevent Wilson from being reminded of how scared he was earlier?

3. How has Wilson changed since the first days of military camp?

4. What does Henry observe as weariness comes over his comrades?

5. Where does Henry's regiment go and why?

6. What does this battle prove about the regiment?

7. Tell what Henry and his friend overheard on the way back from the fruitless search for water.

8. After the charge, when they realized they were safe, how do some of the men return to their own lines?

9. What do Henry and his friend manage to do that boosts the morale of the Union forces to make the Rebels retreat?

10. As they wait in the trenches, what happens to the silence?

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