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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do some of the soldiers do to make marching easier?
(a) hold hands
(b) shed their knapsacks
(c) whistle
(d) make jokes

3. What follows the men returning from the battlefield?
(a) catcalls and bullets whizzing by their heads
(b) stray dogs afraid of the noise
(c) horses that have lost their riders
(d) military ambulance wagons

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

5. What does Henry's mother do for him before he leaves?
(a) bakes him some cookies
(b) knits him some socks
(c) brushes his uniform
(d) cuts his hair

Short Answer Questions

1. When Henry meets up with a wounded man, what does the man want to know?

2. What new fear rises in Henry as the result of the tattered man's question about his wounds?

3. What sudden event takes place after the first retreat of the Rebels?

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

5. How does the whole scene appear to Henry?

(see the answer key)

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