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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. As a victim of nature, what does Henry feel he is being denied?
(a) pity
(b) justice
(c) commendation
(d) opportunity
2. As the Union soldiers get back into position, what is happening?
(a) Bullets are flying, shearing off blades of grass.
(b) Bugles are sounding loudly.
(c) The earth is shaking underneat them.
(d) Fire breaks out behind them.
3. What question is Henry's first rationalization for his having run away?
(a) Hadn't the lieutenant ordered him to drop back?
(b) Didn't he stay close enough that no one would notice him?
(c) Wasn't saving himself the same as saving a piece of the army?
(d) Weren't there a lot of others who had run before he did?
4. What does Henry see that is his first encounter with the reality of war?
(a) an abandoned canon
(b) the body of a dead soldier
(c) destroyed fields
(d) wounded soldiers coming back the other way
5. What is it that Henry believes he is the only man who can see?
(a) that war is nature's way of sorting out the fittest humans
(b) that war is nature's way of duping men into being victims
(c) that war is nonsense invented by madmen
(d) that war is a game for bored civilians to play like chess
6. How does Henry see his current suffering?
(a) as being fair because he is a coward
(b) as a burden that he sould not have to bear
(c) as an accident of nature
(d) as having followed the course nature laid out for him
7. What amazes Henry after the Rebels retreat?
(a) that he cannot stand up
(b) that the sky is still blue
(c) that he is still alive
(d) that his ears are still ringing
8. What is Henry's last view of the tattered man?
(a) falling under the wheels of a caisson
(b) headed back the wrong way
(c) falling on his face in the road
(d) walking aimlessly in a field
9. What is Henry's initial reaction to the results of his first battle?
(a) He is in a daze and cannot think.
(b) He congratualtes himself on coming through it.
(c) He wishes for a way to go home.
(d) He wishes he had run away.
10. What is the pipe smoking friend's reply when Henry asks if he might run away from battle?
(a) He says he probably will.
(b) He says it isn't possible.
(c) He says he isn't sure.
(d) He says he doesn't know.
11. What does Henry wonder about seeing?
(a) the angel of death
(b) the next sunrise
(c) the monster from which all these men were fleeing
(d) the bullet that will pierce his body
12. How does Henry first feel when he realizes that the Union has won the second battle?
(a) afraid of what will happen to him now
(b) confused and disbelieving
(c) elated
(d) betrayed in a way
13. How is Henry shooting and reloading as the Rebels arrive?
(a) very slowly
(b) not very methodically
(c) clumsily
(d) like a machine
14. What does Henry realize could happen to him as he runs down the road?
(a) If he falls now he will surely be trampled to death.
(b) If he stops for breath, he will never catch up.
(c) If he loses his concentration, he might get lost.
(d) If he takes a wrong turn he could be shot.
15. Instinctively, what does Henry feel about the future?
(a) He will have to live in exile.
(b) He is hopelessly lost.
(c) He will work his way out of his predicament.
(d) His mother will not welcome him home.
Short Answer Questions
1. What puts Henry to sleep the first night in the new camp?
2. What makes it difficult for them to make out anything in front of them?
3. What is the feeling among the regiment?
4. Climbing over a fence, what does Henry discover?
5. What does one young man of the battalion do at the first volley?
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