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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. When Henry meets up with a wounded man, what does the man want to know?

2. What question begins to disturb Henry before he goes to battle?

3. Why is Henry ordered to get Jim off the road?

4. What makes Henry believe that at last his chance to prove himself has come?

5. Why does Henry begin to think it would be better to be killed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. Describe the pipe smoking friend's attitude about marching and war.

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

7. Explain Henry's concern about walking with the wounded.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about growing into maturity. Usually it is a gradual process, unlike the two day transformation of Henry. In your essay include circumstances besides war that might cause a young person to mature quickly. [e.g., parents dying in a car accident leaving an older child to care for the younger ones]

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about advertisements for young men and women to join the military. Give your opinion on that as a recruitment process. Include how the attractiveness of the advertisement does not include the realities of being ordered into a war zone.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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