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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What awakens Henry one morning?
(a) a kick in the leg
(b) a fire in the camp
(c) a bugle
(d) an explosion

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

3. What results from the order to move?
(a) They march into an ambush.
(b) They march into Washington for a parade.
(c) They march several miles and return to camp.
(d) They march for hours and set up another camp.

4. What does Henry see that is his first encounter with the reality of war?
(a) the body of a dead soldier
(b) destroyed fields
(c) an abandoned canon
(d) wounded soldiers coming back the other way

5. What do some of the soldiers do to make marching easier?
(a) shed their knapsacks
(b) make jokes
(c) hold hands
(d) whistle

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry describe his months in camp?

2. Why has Henry delayed so many times from enlisting in the army?

3. Where does the bullet hit the lieutenant?

4. What warning does Henry's mother give her son?

5. What is distant and surreal in Henry's mind?

(see the answer key)

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