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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Henry go to collect his thoughts?
(a) into his tent
(b) away from camp to lie in the grass
(c) to the camp chaplain
(d) down by a stream

2. When they stop running, what do the men begin to build?
(a) small fires to keep warm
(b) walls around their new camp
(c) log cabins for the officers
(d) little hills out of anything they can find

3. How does the pipe-smoking friend try to encourage Henry?
(a) by saying they will be side by side
(b) by getting his mind off battle
(c) by telling him jokes
(d) by predicting he will do great things

4. How does Henry's pipe-smoking friend feel about long marches?
(a) all right if there is a battle at the end of it
(b) all right if it only means a new camp
(c) all right because it is better than doing nothing
(d) all right because it keeps them in shape

5. What do the retreating men not see?
(a) the men of Henry's regiment
(b) the river blocking their way
(c) the trees in the woods
(d) the officers on horseback

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry realize could happen to him as he runs down the road?

2. Why does Henry begin to think it would be better to be killed?

3. What does Henry think the lieutenant is lacking?

4. What is distant and surreal in Henry's mind?

5. What question begins to disturb Henry before he goes to battle?

(see the answer key)

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