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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when a huge swarm of soldiers retreats with stragglers heading every which way?
(a) they move to replace them
(b) the fog lifts
(c) the sun sets
(d) their tones change

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

3. How does Henry begin to imagine himself?
(a) lying dead on a battlefield
(b) as a leader to end all wars
(c) receiving a special commendation
(d) becoming a wise general

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

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

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

7. 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 make up his mind that he really wants to return.
(c) He cannot imagine how to find his regiment in all the confusion.
(d) He no longer has a rifle and cannot go into battle to fight with his hands.

8. How does Henry see his current suffering?
(a) as an accident of nature
(b) as having followed the course nature laid out for him
(c) as being fair because he is a coward
(d) as a burden that he sould not have to bear

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

10. 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.

11. Why does the lieutenant hold his hand away from his body?
(a) so everyone can see his wound
(b) so he can grab his pistol quickly
(c) so the blood wouldn't drip on his pants
(d) so the men will turn left

12. What does one of Henry's tent mates ask him to do?
(a) to take a few things to his folks
(b) to get him to a medic
(c) to cover him while he rushes the line
(d) to say a prayer for him

13. Why does Henry begin to think it would be better to be killed?
(a) to get some rest
(b) to escape his duty
(c) to have his troubles ended
(d) to teach a lesson to the lieutenant

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

15. What does one young man of the battalion do at the first volley?
(a) He covers his head with both hands.
(b) He runs.
(c) He stands up.
(d) He vomits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes it difficult for them to make out anything in front of them?

2. What awakens Henry one morning?

3. Why has Henry delayed so many times from enlisting in the army?

4. What begins happening as runners come back out of the haze?

5. When they stop running, what do the men begin to build?

(see the answer keys)

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