Question

Read the excerpt from The Red Badge of Courage. In the excerpt, Henry Fleming and the soldiers in his regiment are marching after performing poorly in a battle. Henry is expressing discontent about his commanding officers’ leadership and the lieutenant of Henry’s regiment expresses his feelings toward his men.

"Good Gawd,” the youth grumbled, "we’re always being chased around like rats! It makes me sick. Nobody seems to know where we go or why we go. We just get fired around from pillar to post and get licked here and get licked there, and nobody knows what it’s done for. . . . Now, I’d like to know what the eternal thunders we was marched into this woods for anyhow, unless it was to give the rebs a regular pot shot at us. We came in here and got our legs all tangled up in these cussed briars, and then we begin to fight and the rebs had an easy time of it. Don’t tell me it’s just like! I know better. It’s this derned old—”

The friend seemed jaded, but he interrupted his comrade with a voice of calm confidence. "It’ll turn out all right in th’ end,” he said.

"Oh, the devil it will! You always talk like a dog-hanged parson. Don’t tell me! I know--”

At this time there was an interposition by the savage-minded lieutenant, who was obliged to vent some of his inward dissatisfaction upon his men. "You boys shut right up! There no need ’a your wastin’ your breath in long-winded arguments about this an’ that an’ th’ other. You’ve been jawin’ like a lot ’a old hens. All you’ve got t’ do is to fight, an’ you’ll get plenty ’a that t’ do in about ten minutes. Less talkin’ an’ more fightin’ is what’s best for you boys. I never saw sech gabbling . . .”

He paused, ready to pounce upon any man who might have the temerity to reply. No words being said, he resumed his dignified pacing.

According to this excerpt, what is the outcome of Henry and his lieutenant’s differing perspectives?

The lieutenant gets into a physical altercation with the soldiers.
Henry and the other soldiers go silent.
Henry suddenly decides to join the rebels.
The lieutenant provides evidence that his strategy was correct.

Answer 1

According to the excerpt, the outcome of Henry and his lieutenant’s differing perspectives is that the lieutenant intervenes and scolds the soldiers, telling them to stop arguing and focus on fighting. The soldiers, including Henry, go silent in response. Therefore, the correct answer is "Henry and the other soldiers go silent."

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