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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Henry begin to think it would be better to be killed?
(a) to escape his duty
(b) to get some rest
(c) to teach a lesson to the lieutenant
(d) to have his troubles ended

2. Why is Henry jealous of the men leaving the battlefield?
(a) He imagines they will get medals.
(b) He imagines they are the chosen ones.
(c) He realizes he would have been one of them.
(d) He sees them leaving without shame.

3. How does the whole scene appear to Henry?
(a) terrifying
(b) common place
(c) super realistic
(d) dreamlike

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

5. What is distant and surreal in Henry's mind?
(a) that things go on as usual back at home
(b) that political differences can start a war
(c) that officers hold his life in their hands
(d) that the war happens in his own country

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

7. Who does Henry meet up with as he walks with the wounded?
(a) the lieutenant with the wounded hand
(b) the pipe smoking comrade
(c) Jim, from his regiment
(d) the general he saw on a horse

8. What makes it difficult for them to make out anything in front of them?
(a) the fog
(b) the darkness
(c) the smoke
(d) the rain

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. At twilight after running aimlessly in the woods, what sound does Henry hear?
(a) the sound of cattle returning to their barns
(b) the sound of squirrels chattering in the trees
(c) the sound of resuming battle
(d) the sound of singing and dnacing

11. How does Henry's question about his bravery continue?
(a) He tries to calculate the odds of his running away.
(b) He has terrible dreams of running away.
(c) He makes a joke of the idea.
(d) He puts it all out of his mind.

12. How are Henry's comrades behaving in the face of imminent warfare?
(a) They tell stoies about their bravery.
(b) They give off airs of being fearless.
(c) They refuse to think about it.
(d) They keep to themselves like Henry.

13. What is it that Henry believes he is the only man who can see?
(a) that war is nonsense invented by madmen
(b) that war is nature's way of duping men into being victims
(c) that war is a game for bored civilians to play like chess
(d) that war is nature's way of sorting out the fittest humans

14. What does Henry feel at times about the wounded men?
(a) confusion
(b) revulsion
(c) envy
(d) hate

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the pipe-smoking friend try to encourage Henry?

3. Climbing over a fence, what does Henry discover?

4. What is Henry's first impulse as he watches the battle?

5. What is Henry's reply when the tattered man asks again about his wounds?

(see the answer keys)

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