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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Henry's pipe-smoking friend feel about long marches?
(a) all right because it keeps them in shape
(b) all right if it only means a new camp
(c) all right because it is better than doing nothing
(d) all right if there is a battle at the end of it

3. How does Henry describe Jim's wounds?
(a) like a butchered calf
(b) like a split open watermelon
(c) like his side was eaten by wolves
(d) like the hole in a doughnut

4. What question is Henry's first rationalization for his having run away?
(a) Weren't there a lot of others who had run before he did?
(b) Wasn't saving himself the same as saving a piece of the army?
(c) Hadn't the lieutenant ordered him to drop back?
(d) Didn't he stay close enough that no one would notice him?

5. What are all the men doing after the battle?
(a) keeping quiet
(b) bragging
(c) thanking God
(d) making small talk

6. How does Henry first feel when he realizes that the Union has won the second battle?
(a) afraid of what will happen to him now
(b) betrayed in a way
(c) elated
(d) confused and disbelieving

7. After the pipe smoking friend leaves Henry, how does he feel?
(a) more alone than ever
(b) sure now that he will run away from battle
(c) sure that he will not run away
(d) proud that he has such a friend

8. What is Henry's last view of the tattered man?
(a) headed back the wrong way
(b) walking aimlessly in a field
(c) falling under the wheels of a caisson
(d) falling on his face in the road

9. How does Henry see his current suffering?
(a) as a burden that he sould not have to bear
(b) as an accident of nature
(c) as having followed the course nature laid out for him
(d) as being fair because he is a coward

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

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

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

13. 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

14. As the noise of the battle grows louder, what does Henry see that confuses him?
(a) a chance to slip back in unnoticed
(b) the Rebels being pushed back
(c) fewer wounded
(d) men leaving the battlefield

15. What does the lieutenant do to the boy who tries to run away?
(a) lets him go
(b) beats him
(c) shoots him
(d) kicks him

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry feel at times about the wounded men?

2. What is Henry's initial reaction to the results of his first battle?

3. What does Henry first blame for his guilty condition?

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

5. Who catches up to Henry after Jim Conklin dies?

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