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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What question begins to disturb Henry before he goes to battle?
(a) if he will run
(b) whether he can shoot a rifle
(c) why he enlisted
(d) how he will take cover

3. What follows the men returning from the battlefield?
(a) horses that have lost their riders
(b) catcalls and bullets whizzing by their heads
(c) military ambulance wagons
(d) stray dogs afraid of the noise

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

5. What does Henry see that is his first encounter with the reality of war?
(a) destroyed fields
(b) wounded soldiers coming back the other way
(c) an abandoned canon
(d) the body of a dead soldier

6. How does the pipe-smoking friend try to encourage Henry?
(a) by predicting he will do great things
(b) by saying they will be side by side
(c) by getting his mind off battle
(d) by telling him jokes

7. As a victim of nature, what does Henry feel he is being denied?
(a) opportunity
(b) justice
(c) commendation
(d) pity

8. Who does Henry meet up with as he walks with the wounded?
(a) Jim, from his regiment
(b) the pipe smoking comrade
(c) the lieutenant with the wounded hand
(d) the general he saw on a horse

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

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

11. How does Henry's question about his bravery continue?
(a) He puts it all out of his mind.
(b) He has terrible dreams of running away.
(c) He tries to calculate the odds of his running away.
(d) He makes a joke of the idea.

12. How does Henry picture the advancing Rebels?
(a) as a red and green dragon
(b) as a swarm of bees
(c) as an advancing freight train
(d) as a great cloud of thunder

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

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

15. What are the running and retreating soldiers seeking?
(a) comfort in numbers
(b) escape from the madness
(c) replacement soldiers
(d) places to take cover

Short Answer Questions

1. At twilight after running aimlessly in the woods, what sound does Henry hear?

2. Who catches up to Henry after Jim Conklin dies?

3. What awakens Henry one morning?

4. As the noise of the battle grows louder, what does Henry see that confuses him?

5. What immobilizes Henry to prevent him for seeking out his regiment?

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