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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What rumor passing through the regiment begins the novel?
(a) that Rebs have surrounded the camp
(b) that Lincoln has been shot
(c) that they will fight tomorrow
(d) that the war is over

3. How does the whole scene appear to Henry?
(a) common place
(b) dreamlike
(c) super realistic
(d) terrifying

4. Why does the lieutenant hold his hand away from his body?
(a) so the men will turn left
(b) so the blood wouldn't drip on his pants
(c) so he can grab his pistol quickly
(d) so everyone can see his wound

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

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

7. What awakens Henry one morning?
(a) a fire in the camp
(b) a kick in the leg
(c) an explosion
(d) a bugle

8. 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.

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

10. 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 was only a minor incident
(d) that it had all been a dream

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

12. After walking around all morning, where does the regiment go?
(a) back to the original camp
(b) back to the same ground it had taken in the morning
(c) over near the banks of a river
(d) back to Washington D. C.

13. How is the horror personified among Henry's regiment?
(a) Panic among the officers
(b) Blood dripping from the returning soldiers
(c) Comrades falling dead in front of them
(d) Officers cursing the twist of fate

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

15. What happens when a huge swarm of soldiers retreats with stragglers heading every which way?
(a) the sun sets
(b) they move to replace them
(c) the fog lifts
(d) their tones change

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry describe his months in camp?

2. What does one young man of the battalion do at the first volley?

3. Where does Henry's mother think he could be put to better use than in the army?

4. What is Henry's first impulse as he watches the battle?

5. What makes Henry believe that at last his chance to prove himself has come?

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