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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one young man of the battalion do at the first volley?
(a) He covers his head with both hands.
(b) He runs.
(c) He vomits.
(d) He stands up.

2. What happens the morning after the rumor of going to war was circulated around the regiment?
(a) a parade
(b) a forced march to the front
(c) nothing happens
(d) an officers meeting

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry's friend reply to his offer to help him walk?

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

3. How does Henry first feel when he realizes that the Union has won the second battle?

4. How does Henry regard himself in comparison to the ones who stayed to fight?

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

(see the answer key)

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