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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the Union soldiers get back into position, what is happening?
(a) Bugles are sounding loudly.
(b) Bullets are flying, shearing off blades of grass.
(c) Fire breaks out behind them.
(d) The earth is shaking underneat them.

2. What does Henry see that is his first encounter with the reality of war?
(a) an abandoned canon
(b) wounded soldiers coming back the other way
(c) the body of a dead soldier
(d) destroyed fields

3. What question is Henry's first rationalization for his having run away?
(a) Wasn't saving himself the same as saving a piece of the army?
(b) Weren't there a lot of others who had run before he did?
(c) Didn't he stay close enough that no one would notice him?
(d) Hadn't the lieutenant ordered him to drop back?

4. What makes Henry believe that at last his chance to prove himself has come?
(a) The regiment is ordered to move.
(b) Sounds of battle get near the camp.
(c) Extra firing practice is ordered.
(d) Many officers ride into camp from the front.

5. What happens the morning after the rumor of going to war was circulated around the regiment?
(a) an officers meeting
(b) a parade
(c) a forced march to the front
(d) nothing happens

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one young man of the battalion do at the first volley?

2. How does Henry regard himself in comparison to the ones who stayed to fight?

3. What does Henry first blame for his guilty condition?

4. What does the lieutenant do to the boy who tries to run away?

5. After the pipe smoking friend leaves Henry, how does he feel?

(see the answer key)

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