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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Henry know that the Union forces had won this second battle?
(a) He could hear their cheers from where he stood.
(b) He could see it from the tree he had climbed.
(c) When the gunshots stopped, the Union was not in retreat.
(d) He overheard a cavalryman talking about it.

2. How is Henry shooting and reloading as the Rebels arrive?
(a) clumsily
(b) like a machine
(c) very slowly
(d) not very methodically

3. How does Henry imagine the battle sounds he hears at night?
(a) as two panthers fighting
(b) a red and green dragons
(c) as thunder in the clouds
(d) as drums in a parade

4. 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 nonsense invented by madmen
(c) that war is a game for bored civilians to play like chess
(d) that war is nature's way of duping men into being victims

5. What sudden event takes place after the first retreat of the Rebels?
(a) They are ordered to march.
(b) The generals send new orders.
(c) They return.
(d) A storm arises.

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

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

8. What question is Henry's first rationalization for his having run away?
(a) Didn't he stay close enough that no one would notice him?
(b) Wasn't saving himself the same as saving a piece of the army?
(c) Hadn't the lieutenant ordered him to drop back?
(d) Weren't there a lot of others who had run before he did?

9. What happens to Henry physically as he marches on toward the battle?
(a) He trips over a dead soldier.
(b) He becomes nauseated.
(c) He aches from pain, thirst, and hunger.
(d) He falls and breaks an arm.

10. How are Henry's comrades behaving in the face of imminent warfare?
(a) They keep to themselves like Henry.
(b) They refuse to think about it.
(c) They give off airs of being fearless.
(d) They tell stoies about their bravery.

11. As a boy, how had Henry imagined himself ?
(a) as a school teacher
(b) as a gentleman farmer
(c) as a hero in wars
(d) as a politician

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

13. Why is Henry ordered to get Jim off the road?
(a) A battery is approaching.
(b) There are holes in the road.
(c) Snipers may shoot him.
(d) He is walking too slow.

14. What is Henry's reply when the tattered man asks again about his wounds?
(a) that his wound is under his shirt and the bandages stopped the bleeding
(b) that he doesn't want to talk about it
(c) that his wound is a broken hand that cannot fire a gun
(d) that he was knocked unconscious and his head hurts

15. Why does Henry begin to think it would be better to be killed?
(a) to teach a lesson to the lieutenant
(b) to escape his duty
(c) to get some rest
(d) to have his troubles ended

Short Answer Questions

1. How does he think men perceive him?

2. How does Henry describe his months in camp?

3. What does Henry wonder about seeing?

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

5. What is Henry's initial reaction to the results of his first battle?

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