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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the tattered man say about wounds you cannot see?

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

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

4. Instinctively, what does Henry feel about the future?

5. What does Henry realize could happen to him as he runs down the road?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is happening all around Henry?

2. How does Henry assess the race to battle?

3. What particularly pleases Henry when he stops by his old school?

4. Discuss Henry's moment of panic.

5. How does Henry realize things are not going as they should?

6. How is Henry's next encounter with the dead different from his stumbling upon the single dead soldier.

7. Describe how the men began to shed their knapsacks.

8. What part does glory play in motivating men to join in a war?

9. What makes Henry think the time has come for him to find out about himself?

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

(see the answer keys)

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