View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What causes Henry's moment of panic?
(a) He remembers thinking about running.
(b) He remembers he forgot to pray that morning.
(c) He is momentarily blinded by the smoke.
(d) He doesn't remember loading his rifle.

3. What does the tattered man say about wounds you cannot see?
(a) that often they are the worst ones
(b) that they don't usually amount to much
(c) that they don't leave a scar
(d) that they are usually fatal

4. What makes Henry believe that at last his chance to prove himself has come?
(a) Extra firing practice is ordered.
(b) The regiment is ordered to move.
(c) Many officers ride into camp from the front.
(d) Sounds of battle get near the camp.

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 make up his mind that he really wants to return.
(c) He cannot imagine how to find his regiment in all the confusion.
(d) He no longer has a rifle and cannot go into battle to fight with his hands.

6. What would Henry like to find by looking into the eyes of a corpse?
(a) if he is still alive
(b) the answer to his big question
(c) if the soldier had any pain
(d) if he is a yankee or a rebel

7. What happens when Henry sees a man in front of him drop his rifle and run away?
(a) He panics and runs too.
(b) He shoots the man in the back.
(c) He takes a bullet in the arm.
(d) He yells for the lieutenant.

8. What is distant and surreal in Henry's mind?
(a) that officers hold his life in their hands
(b) that political differences can start a war
(c) that the war happens in his own country
(d) that things go on as usual back at home

9. What unexpected action does Henry take?
(a) He starts running toward the battle sounds.
(b) He circles around to get near the Rebel army.
(c) He runs deeper into the woods.
(d) He climbs a tree to wait for the battle to come to him.

10. How does Henry first feel when he realizes that the Union has won the second battle?
(a) betrayed in a way
(b) confused and disbelieving
(c) afraid of what will happen to him now
(d) elated

11. What becomes Henry's grandiose image of himself?
(a) as a great orator to uplift the world
(b) as a reformer to save the world
(c) as president of the United States
(d) as an angel possessing perfect existence

12. Why is Henry jealous of the men leaving the battlefield?
(a) He imagines they are the chosen ones.
(b) He imagines they will get medals.
(c) He sees them leaving without shame.
(d) He realizes he would have been one of them.

13. What describes the noises Henry hears coming from the Rebels?
(a) curses and cries of pain
(b) songs and drum beats
(c) pipes and harmonicas
(d) snarls, prayers, and cheers

14. As the Union soldiers get back into position, what is happening?
(a) Bugles are sounding loudly.
(b) Fire breaks out behind them.
(c) Bullets are flying, shearing off blades of grass.
(d) The earth is shaking underneat them.

15. What is Henry's initial reaction to the results of his first battle?
(a) He wishes he had run away.
(b) He congratualtes himself on coming through it.
(c) He wishes for a way to go home.
(d) He is in a daze and cannot think.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Henry see that is his first encounter with the reality of war?

3. Where does the bullet hit the lieutenant?

4. How are Henry's comrades behaving in the face of imminent warfare?

5. What warning does Henry's mother give her son?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 741 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample