WorksheetsA Soldier's Heart 2
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels?
a)
Residue
b)
Dysentery
c)
Demoralized
d)
Collide
2.
What is the simultaneous discharge of a number of missiles or firearms?
a)
Volley
b)
Incline
c)
Ripple
d)
Foliage
3.
What are the leaves of a plant, collectively; leafage?
a)
Atmosphere
b)
Foliage
c)
Trees
d)
Fauna
4.
Being very skilled; proficient; expert:
a)
Barrage
b)
Mutiny
c)
Adept
d)
Sad
5.
What is it to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like?
a)
Hades
b)
Plying
c)
Fret
d)
Happiness
6.
Which part of speech is a "person, place, thing or idea"?
a)
Adjective
b)
Noun
c)
Pronoun
d)
Verb
7.
In the sentence - The sutlers kept plying their trade and brought cakes and pies and cookies to the men. - What does plying mean?
a)
to cause corrosion; gnaw into something:
b)
to work with or at diligently; employ busily; use.
c)
about to happen; imminent:
d)
to stoop or bend low.
8.
Choose the correct word. He prepared for battle by attaching his ____________.
a)
Bayonet
b)
Fanfare
c)
Earthworks
d)
Morale
9.
Choose the correct word. Don't wear your old, __________ shoes to the interview.
a)
plush
b)
saber
c)
tattered
d)
rations
10.
Choose the correct word. Charlie could hear _________ booming in the distance.
a)
Artillery
b)
Sabers
c)
Volley
d)
Bayonet
11.
Which word is the Proper noun in this sentence?
Some New York companies lost more than half their men to dysentery.
Some New York companies lost more than half their men to dysentery.
a)
Companies
b)
Lost
c)
New York
d)
Men
12.
Which state is NOT a Confederate state?
a)
Alabama
b)
Georgia
c)
Tennessee
d)
Ohio
13.
Which state is NOT a Confederate state?
a)
Louisiana
b)
Minnesota
c)
Virginia
d)
South Carolina
14.
Which state is a Union state?
a)
Mississippi
b)
Indiana
c)
North Carolina
d)
Texas
15.
Which state is NOT a Union state?
a)
Pennsylvania
b)
New Hampshire
c)
Arkansas
d)
Michigan
16.
What does Charley do after being paid for the first time?
a)
Buys a gun.
b)
Buys two apple pies.
c)
Hides the money in his pack.
d)
Buys a blanket.
17.
Why do the men of Charley's company believe it is okay to steal food?
a)
Because they weren't caught.
b)
It belongs to the Rebels.
c)
It belongs to the Yankees.
d)
They were told to steal.
18.
Why does Charlie clean his rifle so much?
a)
He is nervous.
b)
He wants to be prepared.
c)
He drops it in the mud a lot.
d)
He keeps falling apart.
19.
What animal is Charley required to kill?
a)
Sheep
b)
Cows
c)
Horses
d)
Chickens
20.
What does the meadow come to symbolize for Charley?
a)
Picnics, carriages and horses.
b)
Battles, fear and death.
c)
Horses, cows and chickens.
d)
Campsites and coffee.
21.
What was the last battle where Charley fought?
a)
Bull Run
b)
Chancellorsville
c)
Gettysburg
d)
Shiloh
22.
The Battle of Gettysburg is different from previous battles because Charley –
a)
is defending his position instead of attacking.
b)
finally decides to desert the army and return home.
c)
is no longer afraid he will be killed.
d)
is finally killed in battle.
23.
A conflict in the novel is that Charley –
a)
mourns the loss of a close friend.
b)
goes hungry when his unit runs out of food.
c)
is ordered to shoot horses and hates it.
d)
decides he does not believe in the Union cause.
24.
Charley’s years as a soldier cause him to –
a)
look forward to marrying and raising a family.
b)
consider taking his own life.
c)
move back to his mother’s farm in Minnesota.
d)
return to Gettysburg long after the war is over.
25.
The setting of the final chapter is –
a)
a flashback to Charley’s childhood.
b)
Minnesota during the war.
c)
the Battle of Bull Run.
d)
Minnesota a few years after the war is over.
26.
As Charley leaves Nelson with his belly wound, “the sound of the shot stop[s] him.” From the details in this scene, what can you infer happens to Nelson?
a)
He takes his own life.
b)
He is attacked by a rebel soldier.
c)
He dies from his belly wound.
d)
He breaks his leg.
27.
One of the hardships the soldiers face while they are in camp is –
a)
continued attacks from rebel soldiers at night while the men are asleep.
b)
hunger due to officers stealing the food.
c)
dehydration due to lack of water nearby.
d)
many men becoming sick due to unsanitary conditions.
28.
Charley gets in trouble because he –
a)
talks about deserting and returning to Minnesota.
b)
trades with a rebel soldier.
c)
turns and runs during a battle.
d)
reveals that he is only 15 years old.
29.
“He was old in the art of crossing meadows.” What do the meadows symbolize for Charley?
a)
His young age
b)
Rebel soldiers
c)
Facing death
d)
Losing friends
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