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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the feeling among the regiment?
(a) The battle will take weeks.
(b) They will have to fight on empty stomachs today.
(c) The Union soldiers will all be massacred.
(d) The Rebels will be defeated in no time.

2. What does it feel like to Henry as he waits for the Rebels to charge?
(a) like waiting for a parade to start when the circus comes to his village
(b) like suffocating in a vat of oil
(c) like being buried alive
(d) like what he imagines the judgment day is like

3. What is the pipe smoking friend's reply when Henry asks if he might run away from battle?
(a) He says it isn't possible.
(b) He says he isn't sure.
(c) He says he probably will.
(d) He says he doesn't know.

4. What do the retreating men not see?
(a) the river blocking their way
(b) the trees in the woods
(c) the officers on horseback
(d) the men of Henry's regiment

5. What begins happening as runners come back out of the haze?
(a) heavy rainfall
(b) the rumors and stories
(c) canon bursts
(d) orders to march

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry picture the advancing Rebels?

2. What does Henry wonder about seeing?

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

4. Who impresses Henry when he stops by the school to say good-bye?

5. As a boy, how had Henry imagined himself ?

(see the answer key)

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