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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What awakens Henry one morning?
(a) an explosion
(b) a fire in the camp
(c) a bugle
(d) a kick in the leg

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

3. What begins happening as runners come back out of the haze?
(a) orders to march
(b) canon bursts
(c) the rumors and stories
(d) heavy rainfall

4. What is distant and surreal in Henry's mind?
(a) that things go on as usual back at home
(b) that the war happens in his own country
(c) that officers hold his life in their hands
(d) that political differences can start a war

5. What does Henry wonder about seeing?
(a) the next sunrise
(b) the bullet that will pierce his body
(c) the monster from which all these men were fleeing
(d) the angel of death

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry's pipe-smoking friend feel about long marches?

2. How does the whole scene appear to Henry?

3. What do the Union soldiers do as the Rebels advance?

4. What rumor passing through the regiment begins the novel?

5. What describes the noises Henry hears coming from the Rebels?

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