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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a Major volunteer Henry's regiment to do?
(a) return to base
(b) charge the enemy
(c) collect the bodies of the fallen
(d) ambush the Rebels from behind

2. What returns to Henry in his thoughts as he waits for orders?
(a) the peacefulness of his home
(b) the dark haired girl at his school
(c) the mental and physical agonies he had suffered
(d) wondering about his mother

3. What describes the noises Henry hears coming from the Rebels?
(a) songs and drum beats
(b) snarls, prayers, and cheers
(c) curses and cries of pain
(d) pipes and harmonicas

4. What sudden event takes place after the first retreat of the Rebels?
(a) They return.
(b) They are ordered to march.
(c) The generals send new orders.
(d) A storm arises.

5. As Henry is observing the battle, what happens suddenly to frighten him?
(a) A lieutenant rides up near where he is hiding.
(b) A bomb blast fall near him.
(c) Dark waves of men sweep out of the woods coming toward him.
(d) Runaway horses begin to stampede.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Henry's last view of the tattered man?

2. What causes Henry's moment of panic?

3. How does Henry picture the advancing Rebels?

4. How does Henry explain his absence from the regiment.

5. How does he think men perceive him?

(see the answer key)

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