The Red Badge of Courage, ch.1

As the novel opens ...

• All of these

• The Union army has just had its first victory over the Confederates.

• The soldiers of a regiment are waiting for battle.

• The Confederate soldiers are retreating back to the safety of their plantations.

• None of these

A ​ (a)   soldier suggests that a battle is ​ (b)   , but other soldiers argue ​ (c)   .

• tall
• short
• imminent
• unlikely to happen today
• against the notion
• over dinner rations

What is the name of the young soldier, a private, who returns to the hut where the regiment is camped and thinks about war?

True or false?

Groups:

(a) True

,

(b) False

• Henry is afraid to join the army

• Henry's mother wants him to stay on the farm

• Henry doesnt mind waiting as his regiment moved toward Washington

• Henry recalls his school mates' reaction to his enlistment

• War veterans told frightening tales of war

• Henry eventually enlists with his mother's support

Which statement is not true about Henry as he thinks about what he will do when -- and if -- a battle takes place?

• "a little panic-fear" grows in his mind

• his mind struggles

• he jumps from his bunk and paces on the floor

• none of these

What is the name of the tall soldier who brings the news that a battle is certain, comments on how he expects the new soldiers to react and on how he himself will react under fire?

• none of these

• Rob Corrigan

• Tim Conley

• Jim Conklin

What is the overriding impression of this first chapter?

• peace

• conflict

• certainty

• all of these

The Union soldiers await a ​ (a)   with the Confederate troops in the area. The eminent ​ (b)   is paralleled by the ​ (c)   . As the book opens, the reader sees the ​ (d)   , a soldier waiting for his first battle, ironically engaged in an ​ (e)   with his own thoughts.

• external conflict
• fight raging in Henry's mind
• internal conflict
• physical battle
• main character

Match the characters and literary terms

• theme

• Civil War

• internal conflict

• initially certain that glory awaits him in war

• external conflict

• struggle between confidence and fear and doubt

• Henry

• protagonist struggles between romanticized assurance and lack of confidence

• Henry's mother

• does not want her son to enlist

The writer sets the stage, making the protagonist almost entirely introspective (looking in). Why?

• It allows the reader to follow Henry's thoughts and emotions throughout the novel.

• The writer sets up a character change with a young man who will develop the confidence necessary to be a frontline soldier.

• The writer illustrates how young men were not ready for the realities of war.

• all of these