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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the Union soldiers get back into position, what is happening?
(a) Bullets are flying, shearing off blades of grass.
(b) Bugles are sounding loudly.
(c) Fire breaks out behind them.
(d) The earth is shaking underneat them.

2. How does Henry describe his months in camp?
(a) too short
(b) monotonous
(c) beneficial
(d) exciting

3. What does it feel like to Henry as he waits for the Rebels to charge?
(a) like suffocating in a vat of oil
(b) like being buried alive
(c) like waiting for a parade to start when the circus comes to his village
(d) like what he imagines the judgment day is like

4. How is the horror personified among Henry's regiment?
(a) Blood dripping from the returning soldiers
(b) Panic among the officers
(c) Comrades falling dead in front of them
(d) Officers cursing the twist of fate

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry begin to feel about the battle he had been in?

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

3. What does one of Henry's tent mates ask him to do?

4. What does the tattered man say about wounds you cannot see?

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

(see the answer key)

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