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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Henry's comrades behaving in the face of imminent warfare?

2. What awakens Henry one morning?

3. How does Henry see his current suffering?

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

5. What is Henry's initial reaction to the results of his first battle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How successful is Henry at comparing himself to other of the troops?

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

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

4. How does the camp react to the rumor of going to war tomorrow?

5. Discuss Henry's moment of panic.

6. Describe Henry as he waits for the advancing Rebel army.

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

8. What is the first rumor that gets started as a result of the battle?

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

10. Describe Henry's mental condition after his first experience in battle.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the loneliness of being away from home. The essay should include the psychological effects of being in unfamiliar surroundings, and how some people handle such separation better than others. Include, also, the challenges of different customs and physical surroundings in a strange place.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the effects on the people soldiers leave behind when they go off to war. Begin with Henry's mother and the dark-haired girl. Then include more modern examples of this kind of separation.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about the responsibility of command. Use the officer who berated the lieutenant within earshot of the troops as an example of bad command. Your essay can discuss teachers who have influenced you positively or negatively by how they used their authority. Or, include any person of authority who has had a similar impact on you like a boss or relative.

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