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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) destroyed fields
(d) the body of a dead soldier

2. What happens when a huge swarm of soldiers retreats with stragglers heading every which way?
(a) they move to replace them
(b) the sun sets
(c) the fog lifts
(d) their tones change

3. What does Henry see his mother doing as he turns to look back?
(a) waving good-bye
(b) washing clothes
(c) praying and quivering
(d) hitching up the plow horse

4. What question begins to disturb Henry before he goes to battle?
(a) if he will run
(b) whether he can shoot a rifle
(c) why he enlisted
(d) how he will take cover

5. After walking around all morning, where does the regiment go?
(a) back to Washington D. C.
(b) over near the banks of a river
(c) back to the original camp
(d) back to the same ground it had taken in the morning

Short Answer Questions

1. When they stop running, what do the men begin to build?

2. Why has Henry delayed so many times from enlisting in the army?

3. What is the feeling among the regiment?

4. Where does Henry's mother think he could be put to better use than in the army?

5. As a boy, how had Henry imagined himself ?

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