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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What causes Henry's moment of panic?
(a) He remembers he forgot to pray that morning.
(b) He remembers thinking about running.
(c) He is momentarily blinded by the smoke.
(d) He doesn't remember loading his rifle.

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

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

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

10. After the pipe smoking friend leaves Henry, how does he feel?
(a) proud that he has such a friend
(b) sure now that he will run away from battle
(c) more alone than ever
(d) sure that he will not run away

11. What is distant and surreal in Henry's mind?
(a) that the war happens in his own country
(b) that officers hold his life in their hands
(c) that political differences can start a war
(d) that things go on as usual back at home

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

13. When Henry meets up with a wounded man, what does the man want to know?
(a) what time it is
(b) where he left his rifle
(c) where he can find some water
(d) where he was wounded

14. What describes the noises Henry hears coming from the Rebels?
(a) songs and drum beats
(b) pipes and harmonicas
(c) snarls, prayers, and cheers
(d) curses and cries of pain

15. What warning does Henry's mother give her son?
(a) to stay behind the lines
(b) to be careful what he eats
(c) to wash behind his ears
(d) to watch the company he keeps

Short Answer Questions

1. What amazes Henry after the Rebels retreat?

2. Why is Henry ordered to get Jim off the road?

3. What brings Henry out of his stupor?

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

5. How does Henry begin to feel about the battle he had been in?

(see the answer keys)

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