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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Henry rationalize his railing at nature while he was on the run?
(a) He didn't really mean it.
(b) Hunger made him irrational.
(c) He had been confused and disoriented.
(d) The doomed and the damned are allowed to do it.

2. Instinctively, what does Henry feel about the future?
(a) His mother will not welcome him home.
(b) He is hopelessly lost.
(c) He will have to live in exile.
(d) He will work his way out of his predicament.

3. What does the tattered man say about wounds you cannot see?
(a) that they don't leave a scar
(b) that they are usually fatal
(c) that they don't usually amount to much
(d) that often they are the worst ones

4. What does one of Henry's tent mates ask him to do?
(a) to get him to a medic
(b) to cover him while he rushes the line
(c) to say a prayer for him
(d) to take a few things to his folks

5. What causes the regiment to slow its advance against the Rebels?
(a) exhaustion
(b) orders from the lieutenant
(c) marshes
(d) canon fire

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Henry wipe his eyes with his coat sleeve?

2. What does the regiment know of the military machinery behind their orders to charge the Rebels?

3. What is Henry's initial reaction to the results of his first battle?

4. How does Henry know that the Union forces had won this second battle?

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

(see the answer key)

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