Q 01/05

Where did Stephen Crane, who had never seen a battle, say he got his sense of the rage of conflict?

A) The football field

B) A college boxing ring

C) A deer hunting trip

D) A river rowing crew

Answer · why

A) The football field

The football field, Crane claimed, or else fighting was a hereditary instinct in his family. He was born six years after the Civil War ended, yet earl...

Q 02/05

Which animated series named a Civil War reenactment episode with a pun on The Red Badge of Courage?

A) The Simpsons

B) South Park

C) Family Guy

D) King of the Hill

Answer · why

B) South Park

South Park called its 1999 episode The Red Badge of Gayness. In it, Cartman talks the town's reenactors into trying to alter history, all to win a bet...

Q 03/05

Which war hero, the most decorated US soldier of World War II, played Henry Fleming in a 1951 film?

A) James Stewart

B) Tyrone Power

C) Audie Murphy

D) Lee Marvin

Answer · why

C) Audie Murphy

Audie Murphy, a Medal of Honor recipient, played a soldier who runs from his first real fight. He and the director later tried, and failed, to buy the...

Q 04/05

What is the red badge of courage that the runaway soldier Henry Fleming envies other men for having?

A) A bravery medal

B) A sergeant's sash

C) A scarlet patch

D) A battle wound

Answer · why

D) A battle wound

A battle wound is what Henry means: walking among injured men after he has run away, he envies them the visible proof that they stood and fought.

Q 05/05

Which battle, where Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own men, likely inspired Henry Fleming's unnamed fight?

A) Chancellorsville

B) Gettysburg

C) Kennesaw Mountain

D) Fredericksburg

Answer · why

A) Chancellorsville

Chancellorsville is never named in the novel, which leaves out dates and place names on purpose. Robert E. Lee's win there in 1863 is sometimes called...