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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the men do while waiting for the next battle?
(a) Visit hospitals
(b) Visit whorehouses
(c) Drill and wait
(d) Volunteer at the Red Cross

2. What happens when Charley gets a pass to see the sights?
(a) He gets drunk
(b) He gets arrested
(c) He goes to a whorehouse
(d) It rains and he returns to camp early

3. Where is Charley in Chapter 10?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Wisconsin.

4. What are Charley and a few other men ordered to do?
(a) Provide beef for the men
(b) Scout for the enemy
(c) Clean rifles
(d) Pitch more tents

5. Who helps to provide some food for the soldiers?
(a) Church groups
(b) Officers' wives
(c) Local women
(d) Nurses

6. What are the enlisted men eventually allowed to have for medicinal purposes?
(a) Vodka
(b) Whiskey
(c) Opium
(d) Marijuana

7. Which of the following does Charley not hear bullets hitting?
(a) Logs.
(b) Trees.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Birds.

8. Which of the following should Charley not be doing at this point in his life?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Having children.
(c) Farming.
(d) Hobbling around.

9. What is the nickname for the Southern secessionists?
(a) Dirty shitheads
(b) Dirty bastards
(c) Dirty Rebs
(d) Dirty seches

10. From whom were the men required to buy their whiskey?
(a) Local bars
(b) Sutlers
(c) Home breweries
(d) Army supplies

11. About what does Charley think at the end of the novel?
(a) Meadows.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) God.
(d) The nice things that happened at the beginning of the war.

12. Who calls to Charley when he is on guard duty one night?
(a) His mother
(b) General McClellan
(c) A Rebel soldier
(d) President Lincoln

13. What is the morale of the men as they wait in camp?
(a) High
(b) Deteriorating
(c) Resigned
(d) Anxious

14. What does Charley use to build a windbreak for the surgeon?
(a) Old barn planks.
(b) A wall of frozen, dead bodies.
(c) Dead horses.
(d) Tents.

15. What does Charley carry with him to the river?
(a) Knapsack.
(b) Lunch sack.
(c) Fishing pole.
(d) Umbrella.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Charley not see on the farms surrounding Washington?

2. What soon faces Charley and his comrades?

3. At least one-half of the men from _________________ die from some form of contagious disease.

4. Who is the new commander assigned to Charley's company?

5. Which of the following do Charley and the other men not take from the surrounding farms?

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