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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Henry know that the Union forces had won this second battle?
(a) He overheard a cavalryman talking about it.
(b) He could see it from the tree he had climbed.
(c) He could hear their cheers from where he stood.
(d) When the gunshots stopped, the Union was not in retreat.

3. How does Henry regard himself in comparison to the ones who stayed to fight?
(a) as being more stupid than his comrades
(b) as being more of a hero than they
(c) as physically weaker than the ones who stayed
(d) as having superior intellect

4. Who do Henry and his friend overhear on the road?
(a) some Rebel officers
(b) the general and a major
(c) a wounded soldier begging another soldier to shoot him
(d) two of their regiment planning to desert

5. How does Henry first feel when he realizes that the Union has won the second battle?
(a) elated
(b) afraid of what will happen to him now
(c) betrayed in a way
(d) confused and disbelieving

Short Answer Questions

1. What other secret do Henry and his friend share?

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

3. What are the men doing in the forest as Henry nears his regiment?

4. What does a Major volunteer Henry's regiment to do?

5. What question is Henry's first rationalization for his having run away?

(see the answer key)

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