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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What results from the order to move?
(a) They march into Washington for a parade.
(b) They march for hours and set up another camp.
(c) They march into an ambush.
(d) They march several miles and return to camp.

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

3. What puts Henry to sleep the first night in the new camp?
(a) the voices of men gathered around a fire
(b) exhaustion from the day's march
(c) reflections of fire on the wall of his tent
(d) a soldier playing a harmonica

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some of the soldiers do to make marching easier?

2. How does Henry regard himself in comparison to the ones who stayed to fight?

3. After the pipe smoking friend leaves Henry, how does he feel?

4. What is it that Henry believes he is the only man who can see?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Henry decide nature has done with him?

2. How does Henry mentally separate himself from other men?

3. What does Henry want to do when he happens upon a general astride a magnificent horse?

4. Explain how Henry perceives the men and wagons retreating from the battle.

5. Describe the source of the rumor of going to battle the next day that goes through the camp.

6. Explain what goes through Henry's mind as he contemplates going into battle.

7. Discuss Henry's moment of panic.

8. What motivates Henry to run back the way he had come?

9. Describe how Henry's doubts and questions linger as he waits in the camp.

10. After convincing himself that it was a law of nature for men and animals to run from danger, explain how his theory is proved to be untrue.

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