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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Henry jealous of the men leaving the battlefield?
(a) He sees them leaving without shame.
(b) He realizes he would have been one of them.
(c) He imagines they are the chosen ones.
(d) He imagines they will get medals.

3. How is the regiment treated on the way to Washington?
(a) kept out of the towns
(b) feasted at each stop
(c) railed by angry citizens
(d) ignored by everyone

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

5. What makes it difficult for them to make out anything in front of them?
(a) the rain
(b) the fog
(c) the darkness
(d) the smoke

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

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

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

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

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

11. What makes Henry believe that at last his chance to prove himself has come?
(a) The regiment is ordered to move.
(b) Many officers ride into camp from the front.
(c) Sounds of battle get near the camp.
(d) Extra firing practice is ordered.

12. Where does the bullet hit the lieutenant?
(a) in the chest
(b) in his leg
(c) in the head
(d) in his hand

13. What does the lieutenant do to the boy who tries to run away?
(a) beats him
(b) shoots him
(c) lets him go
(d) kicks him

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

15. 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 was knocked unconscious and his head hurts
(c) that his wound is a broken hand that cannot fire a gun
(d) that he doesn't want to talk about it

Short Answer Questions

1. Climbing over a fence, what does Henry discover?

2. When Henry meets up with a wounded man, what does the man want to know?

3. How are the troops feeling as they are still on the move?

4. Who does Henry meet up with as he walks with the wounded?

5. How does Henry describe Jim's wounds?

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