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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What brings Henry out of his stupor?
(a) A bullet whizzes by his head.
(b) Someone cries out that the enemy is coming.
(c) The lieutenant kicks him.
(d) He hears the Rebel war cry.

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

3. 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) nothing happens
(d) a parade

4. At what is Henry's anger directed during the battle?
(a) the smoke
(b) the lieutenants
(c) the noise
(d) the heat

5. What does Henry's mother do for him before he leaves?
(a) cuts his hair
(b) bakes him some cookies
(c) brushes his uniform
(d) knits him some socks

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one young man of the battalion do at the first volley?

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

3. How does Henry's pipe-smoking friend feel about long marches?

4. What causes Henry's moment of panic?

5. Why does Henry wipe his eyes with his coat sleeve?

(see the answer key)

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