RBC Test Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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RBC Test Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers

Question:RBC is very much like a ______ story

Ans: short

Question: 3 characteristics of why it is like a short story

Ans: compressed, unified, and nothing extra is added

Question: Characters are important because they reflect ___________

Ans: the attitudes of Henry

Question: Characters that reflect the attitudes of Henry; face same problem
and gain maturity

Ans: tall soldier, loud soldier

Question: Setting is _____

Ans: civil war battle

Question: Unity of setting of civil war battle (2 characteristics)

Ans: opens with troops resting on hill and ends in same place

Question: What was the actual battle in RBC?

Ans: The Battle of Chancellorsville

Question: Time during the 1st 3 chapters (what events):

Ans: before battle and flashback

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Question: Time during other 21 chapters (what event):

Ans: 2 days of fighting

Question: What is the most important theme? (It's more the nature and
meaning.)

Ans: Courage

Question: ____ learns _____ is a "temporary but sublime absence of
selfishness"

Ans: Henry, courage

Question: Men became ____ and forgot they're _____; performing _____
_____

Ans: united, individuals, heroic acts

Question: Crane was disillusioned (hated it) by this theme...

Ans: War

Question: After a battle they returned from where they came from, this
shows....

Ans: War is useless

Question: This theme is tied closely with the theme of courage

Ans: War

Question: What is the theme that is the basis of worry? (Henry experiences
this the most.)

Ans: Fear

Question: The 2 major themes in RBC are:

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Ans: death and ricicule

Question: Henry runs from battle because of fear of being killed then wished
he were dead because of ridicule. This is a _______

Ans: Paradox

Question: The story line is _______: a series of events that doesn't determine
the ending (Ex: tv shows)

Ans: Episodic

Question: Like a chain

Ans: episodic

Question: It's a ______ study of a boy who faces ____ for the 1st time

Ans: psychological, death

Question: Henry becomes ____ and ____ away

Ans: frightened, runs

Question: Henry regains his _____ and fights ____

Ans: courage, heroically

Question: Henry _____ and becomes aware of himself as an ______

Ans: matures, individual

Question: 2 stories in 1:

Ans: physical (battle) and mental (Henry's mind)

Question: 1st Basic Division in Novel

Ans: Henry before battle