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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Running down the road, what is Henry trying to do?
(a) to keep up with the other men
(b) to keep his head down
(c) to load his rifle
(d) to find out what is happening

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

4. Why has Henry delayed so many times from enlisting in the army?
(a) because of his age
(b) because of his dreams
(c) because of his fear
(d) because of his mother

5. What immobilizes Henry to prevent him for seeking out his regiment?
(a) He cannot come up with a good story about where he has been.
(b) He cannot imagine how to find his regiment in all the confusion.
(c) He cannot make up his mind that he really wants to return.
(d) He no longer has a rifle and cannot go into battle to fight with his hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the whole scene appear to Henry?

2. What is distant and surreal in Henry's mind?

3. What is Henry's reply when the tattered man asks again about his wounds?

4. What does Henry wonder about seeing?

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

(see the answer key)

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