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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens the morning after the rumor of going to war was circulated around the regiment?
(a) a forced march to the front
(b) an officers meeting
(c) a parade
(d) nothing happens

2. What follows the men returning from the battlefield?
(a) catcalls and bullets whizzing by their heads
(b) stray dogs afraid of the noise
(c) military ambulance wagons
(d) horses that have lost their riders

3. What does Henry wonder about seeing?
(a) the bullet that will pierce his body
(b) the next sunrise
(c) the angel of death
(d) the monster from which all these men were fleeing

4. How is the regiment treated on the way to Washington?
(a) feasted at each stop
(b) railed by angry citizens
(c) kept out of the towns
(d) ignored by everyone

5. How is the horror personified among Henry's regiment?
(a) Officers cursing the twist of fate
(b) Panic among the officers
(c) Blood dripping from the returning soldiers
(d) Comrades falling dead in front of them

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes it difficult for them to make out anything in front of them?

2. What happens when a huge swarm of soldiers retreats with stragglers heading every which way?

3. What would Henry like to find by looking into the eyes of a corpse?

4. How does the pipe-smoking friend try to encourage Henry?

5. When they stop running, what do the men begin to build?

(see the answer key)

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