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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Henry's question about his bravery continue?
(a) He makes a joke of the idea.
(b) He tries to calculate the odds of his running away.
(c) He has terrible dreams of running away.
(d) He puts it all out of his mind.

2. What happens when Henry asks one of the soldiers what is happening?
(a) He is told to shut up and run.
(b) He gets stabbed with a bayonet.
(c) He is cursed as a deserter.
(d) He gets hit in the head with a rifle butt.

3. How does Henry rationalize his railing at nature while he was on the run?
(a) The doomed and the damned are allowed to do it.
(b) Hunger made him irrational.
(c) He had been confused and disoriented.
(d) He didn't really mean it.

4. What does the regiment know of the military machinery behind their orders to charge the Rebels?
(a) only when they will be relieved
(b) nothing
(c) all the details
(d) exactly what the final plan is

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry feel about the enemy?

2. What new fear rises in Henry as the result of the tattered man's question about his wounds?

3. What is the sound Henry hears as he fixes his eyes on a clump of trees?

4. As the regiment weakens, what is the effect on the lieutenant?

5. How does the pipe-smoking friend try to encourage Henry?

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