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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry learn about other men in his regiment?
(a) They had stayed at the front the longest.
(b) They, too, got separated and are returning.
(c) They were ambushed and many of them killed.
(d) They had wanted to surrender.

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

3. What returns to Henry in his thoughts as he waits for orders?
(a) the peacefulness of his home
(b) the dark haired girl at his school
(c) the mental and physical agonies he had suffered
(d) wondering about his mother

4. Where does Henry's mother think he could be put to better use than in the army?
(a) on the farm
(b) as a postman
(c) in a schoolroom
(d) in the navy

5. After walking around all morning, where does the regiment go?
(a) back to the original camp
(b) over near the banks of a river
(c) back to Washington D. C.
(d) back to the same ground it had taken in the morning

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Henry feel at times about the wounded men?

3. Against whom does Henry develop a particular anger?

4. Why does Henry wipe his eyes with his coat sleeve?

5. What happens to Henry physically as he marches on toward the battle?

(see the answer key)

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