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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 weapons do the men use at this point of the battle?
(a) Knives.
(b) Pistols.
(c) Bayonets.
(d) Cannons.

2. What does Charley contemplate as he sits on the riverbank?
(a) Religion.
(b) His mother.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Pretty girls.

3. What does Charley realize as the men get closer to the city?
(a) He is going to desert
(b) He is going to die
(c) There are many guns
(d) The South is going to win the war

4. What happens to men who are caught deserting?
(a) They have to dig latrines
(b) They are shot
(c) They are given hard labor
(d) They are sent home

5. What is the extent of Charley's wound?
(a) He is not wounded.
(b) He loses an arm.
(c) His leg has been grazed.
(d) He has a head wound.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is rumored about McClellan?

2. Charley cannot bring himself to shoot at the ______________.

3. Which of the following is not part of the typical daily rations?

4. Charley watches as the enemy falls and ________ by the thousands.

5. Which of the following of Charley's items is not grazed by bullets?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Battle of Gettysburg begin for Charley and his company?

2. How does Charley spend his first paycheck?

3. What is the nature of the wound Charley sustains in Chapter 8?

4. What does Charley mean when he thinks he is old in "meadows"?

5. What job does a surgeon ask Charley to do?

6. How do the men get whiskey?

7. What are some of the very familiar things that Charley experiences as he heads into this battle?

8. What is Charley's initial experience like at camp in Washington?

9. What does Charley think as he watches the enemy soldiers fall and die?

10. What is different for Charley as he prepares to go into this battle?

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