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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens the morning after the rumor of going to war was circulated around the regiment?
(a) a forced march to the front
(b) a parade
(c) an officers meeting
(d) nothing happens

2. What is Henry's last view of the tattered man?
(a) headed back the wrong way
(b) falling on his face in the road
(c) falling under the wheels of a caisson
(d) walking aimlessly in a field

3. What does Henry realize about the tattered man?
(a) that he is faking his wounds
(b) that he is simply lonely
(c) that he, too, is about to die
(d) that he does not suspect Henry

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

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

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

7. Why has Henry delayed so many times from enlisting in the army?
(a) because of his dreams
(b) because of his fear
(c) because of his mother
(d) because of his age

8. What does Henry see his mother doing as he turns to look back?
(a) praying and quivering
(b) washing clothes
(c) waving good-bye
(d) hitching up the plow horse

9. How does Henry describe his months in camp?
(a) beneficial
(b) exciting
(c) too short
(d) monotonous

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

11. Where does Henry's mother think he could be put to better use than in the army?
(a) in the navy
(b) on the farm
(c) in a schoolroom
(d) as a postman

12. Instinctively, what does Henry feel about the future?
(a) He is hopelessly lost.
(b) He will have to live in exile.
(c) He will work his way out of his predicament.
(d) His mother will not welcome him home.

13. How does Henry's pipe-smoking friend feel about long marches?
(a) all right if there is a battle at the end of it
(b) all right because it is better than doing nothing
(c) all right because it keeps them in shape
(d) all right if it only means a new camp

14. What is Henry's first impulse as he watches the battle?
(a) to return and fight
(b) to kill himself
(c) to wound himself
(d) to give up and go home

15. What does Henry feel at times about the wounded men?
(a) envy
(b) revulsion
(c) confusion
(d) hate

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes Henry's grandiose image of himself?

2. What causes Henry's moment of panic?

3. What amazes Henry after the Rebels retreat?

4. What does Henry realize could happen to him as he runs down the road?

5. What awakens Henry one morning?

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