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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the lieutenant do to the boy who tries to run away?
(a) kicks him
(b) shoots him
(c) beats him
(d) lets him go

2. What does Henry see that is his first encounter with the reality of war?
(a) wounded soldiers coming back the other way
(b) destroyed fields
(c) the body of a dead soldier
(d) an abandoned canon

3. 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

4. How does Henry describe Jim's wounds?
(a) like a split open watermelon
(b) like a butchered calf
(c) like the hole in a doughnut
(d) like his side was eaten by wolves

5. What brings Henry out of his stupor?
(a) He hears the Rebel war cry.
(b) A bullet whizzes by his head.
(c) The lieutenant kicks him.
(d) Someone cries out that the enemy is coming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Henry ordered to get Jim off the road?

2. What amazes Henry after the Rebels retreat?

3. How does Henry know that the Union forces had won this second battle?

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

5. What does one young man of the battalion do at the first volley?

(see the answer key)

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