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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Henry's first impulse as he watches the battle?
(a) to kill himself
(b) to wound himself
(c) to give up and go home
(d) to return and fight

2. What is Henry's act of bravery?
(a) He lets out a yell and charges the Rebels alone.
(b) He manages to carry the flag and shoot at the same time.
(c) He moves ahead with the flag and urges the men to follow.
(d) He defies the orders of the colonel.

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

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

5. What causes the regiment to slow its advance against the Rebels?
(a) canon fire
(b) exhaustion
(c) marshes
(d) orders from the lieutenant

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry describe his months in camp?

2. What is the feeling among the regiment?

3. As a victim of nature, what does Henry feel he is being denied?

4. What does the lieutenant order the complaining men to do?

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

(see the answer key)

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