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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Henry's comrades behaving in the face of imminent warfare?
(a) They tell stoies about their bravery.
(b) They keep to themselves like Henry.
(c) They give off airs of being fearless.
(d) They refuse to think about it.

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

3. What does Henry wonder about seeing?
(a) the bullet that will pierce his body
(b) the next sunrise
(c) the monster from which all these men were fleeing
(d) the angel of death

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

5. At twilight after running aimlessly in the woods, what sound does Henry hear?
(a) the sound of squirrels chattering in the trees
(b) the sound of singing and dnacing
(c) the sound of cattle returning to their barns
(d) the sound of resuming battle

6. How does Henry first feel when he realizes that the Union has won the second battle?
(a) confused and disbelieving
(b) elated
(c) afraid of what will happen to him now
(d) betrayed in a way

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

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 because it is better than doing nothing
(c) all right because it keeps them in shape
(d) all right if there is a battle at the end of it

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

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

11. Where is Henry's regiment the morning he expects to be his first battle?
(a) on an open field
(b) among the trees at the edge of a grove
(c) on the banks of a river
(d) near a small Southern village

12. How does he think men perceive him?
(a) as a greased pig
(b) as a worm in an apple
(c) as a piece of trash
(d) as a mindless monkey

13. What do the Union soldiers do as the Rebels advance?
(a) say prayers
(b) hold their breath
(c) ready their cartridges
(d) run for cover

14. What becomes Henry's grandiose image of himself?
(a) as president of the United States
(b) as a great orator to uplift the world
(c) as an angel possessing perfect existence
(d) as a reformer to save the world

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Henry like to find by looking into the eyes of a corpse?

2. Running down the road, what is Henry trying to do?

3. As a boy, how had Henry imagined himself ?

4. What destroys Henry's rationalization about nature prompting him to run?

5. What warning does Henry's mother give her son?

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