Chickamauga

How did the child acquire his idealistic attitude about war?

• He learned about it from watching soldiers fight.

• His mother taught him about the glories of war.

• Slaves on the plantation told him stories about battles.

• It was passed down to him from his father.

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What kind of people were the boy’s ancestors?

• Civil War veterans

• hunter-gatherers

• warriors, conquerors

• businessmen

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Which line is an example of DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION?

• “[He] was happy in a new sense of freedom from control, happy in the opportunity of exploration and adventure…”

• With a startled cry the child turned and fled

• he made his way across and fell again upon the rear-guard of his imaginary foe, putting all to the sword

• The very ground seemed in motion toward the creek.

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What does the boy come across while “leading his army” in the forest?

• Wounded soldiers

• His dead mother

• A black bear

• A dying general

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It is ironic that

• there was a battle fought nearby

• the boy’s father was a soldier

• the boy is afraid of a rabbit but wants to meet a bear

• the mother is worried about her child

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Why does Bierce contrast the boy’s imagination with reality?

• to show that war is not as awful as the boy thinks it is

• to show that the soldiers were scarier than the rabbit

• to show that the boy should not be left alone so much

• to show the war is often glorified when it shouldn’t be

Which is an example of irony?

• “The water gleamed with dashes of red…”

• “…these maimed and bleeding men…to him it was a merry spectacle.”

• “All their faces were singularly white and many were streaked…with red.”

• “Surely such a leader never before had such a following.”

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The point of view in “Chickamauga”

• tells the reader about the Battle of Chickamauga

• prevents the reader from knowing what is really happening

• shows only the perspective of the 6 year old boy and his father

• is balanced by that of an adult narrator who counterpoints the boy’s childish view

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the word inarticulate means

• quiet

• incomprehensible

• loud

• gloomy

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Which quote best helps the reader visualize the setting?

• On his right the brook, to the left a gentle acclivity studded with infrequent trees

• But he had rested, and he no longer wept.

• Suddenly he saw before him a strange moving object which he took to be some large animal

• Possibly his impressionable mind was half conscious of something familiar in its shambling, awkward gait.

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