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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What immobilizes Henry to prevent him for seeking out his regiment?
(a) He cannot come up with a good story about where he has been.
(b) He cannot imagine how to find his regiment in all the confusion.
(c) He no longer has a rifle and cannot go into battle to fight with his hands.
(d) He cannot make up his mind that he really wants to return.

9. What does Henry first blame for his guilty condition?
(a) circumstances
(b) the generals
(c) consequences
(d) the man in front of him who ran

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

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

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

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

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

15. How has Henry always viewed himself in the world?
(a) as unimportant and useless
(b) as different from other men
(c) as less intelligent than others
(d) as one who always follows orders

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the tattered man say about wounds you cannot see?

2. What results from the order to move?

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

4. What is Henry's last view of the tattered man?

5. What does Henry think the lieutenant is lacking?

(see the answer keys)

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