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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Henry describe his months in camp?
(a) monotonous
(b) exciting
(c) beneficial
(d) too short

2. As a boy, how had Henry imagined himself ?
(a) as a school teacher
(b) as a hero in wars
(c) as a gentleman farmer
(d) as a politician

3. What does one young man of the battalion do at the first volley?
(a) He stands up.
(b) He covers his head with both hands.
(c) He runs.
(d) He vomits.

4. How does Henry rationalize his railing at nature while he was on the run?
(a) Hunger made him irrational.
(b) He had been confused and disoriented.
(c) He didn't really mean it.
(d) The doomed and the damned are allowed to do it.

5. What does Henry recall while waiting for marching orders?
(a) the yellow envelope
(b) Jim Conklin's death
(c) the corpses in the field
(d) the dead soldier

Short Answer Questions

1. What returns to Henry in his thoughts as he waits for orders?

2. Where does Henry's mother think he could be put to better use than in the army?

3. What does one of Henry's tent mates ask him to do?

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

5. How does he think men perceive him?

(see the answer key)

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