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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Henry begin to feel about the battle he had been in?
(a) that he had not understood the danger
(b) that it was far more dnagerous than what he ran from
(c) that it had all been a dream
(d) that it was only a minor incident

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

3. As the noise of the battle grows louder, what does Henry see that confuses him?
(a) the Rebels being pushed back
(b) a chance to slip back in unnoticed
(c) men leaving the battlefield
(d) fewer wounded

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

5. What does Henry wonder about seeing?
(a) the bullet that will pierce his body
(b) the next sunrise
(c) the angel of death
(d) the monster from which all these men were fleeing

6. What begins happening as runners come back out of the haze?
(a) orders to march
(b) heavy rainfall
(c) canon bursts
(d) the rumors and stories

7. What destroys Henry's rationalization about nature prompting him to run?
(a) a rainstorm that comes up suddenly
(b) some wounded soldiers rejoicing over the victory
(c) a squirrel being eaten by a stray cat
(d) the sight of the dead man with the ants crawling over his skin

8. What does Henry's friend reply to his offer to help him walk?
(a) Others need help more than me.
(b) Thanks, my friend.
(c) Help me sit down.
(d) Leave me be.

9. What new fear rises in Henry as the result of the tattered man's question about his wounds?
(a) that he might get wounded like him
(b) that he will be sent back to the front
(c) that he will be found out
(d) that the man knows he is a deserter

10. 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) Weren't there a lot of others who had run before he did?
(d) Wasn't saving himself the same as saving a piece of the army?

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

12. What does Henry realize could happen to him as he runs down the road?
(a) If he loses his concentration, he might get lost.
(b) If he takes a wrong turn he could be shot.
(c) If he falls now he will surely be trampled to death.
(d) If he stops for breath, he will never catch up.

13. How is the regiment treated on the way to Washington?
(a) feasted at each stop
(b) ignored by everyone
(c) railed by angry citizens
(d) kept out of the towns

14. How does Henry regard himself in comparison to the ones who stayed to fight?
(a) as being more of a hero than they
(b) as being more stupid than his comrades
(c) as having superior intellect
(d) as physically weaker than the ones who stayed

15. What results from the order to move?
(a) They march for hours and set up another camp.
(b) They march several miles and return to camp.
(c) They march into Washington for a parade.
(d) They march into an ambush.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry begin to imagine himself?

2. How does Henry know that the Union forces had won this second battle?

3. What describes the noises Henry hears coming from the Rebels?

4. What awakens Henry one morning?

5. How has Henry always viewed himself in the world?

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