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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the men bring to the French girls as presents?
(a) Food.
(b) Stolen jewellery.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Money.

2. What was Leer good at in school, though it could not save him?
(a) Gym class.
(b) Sport shooting.
(c) Art.
(d) Mathematics.

3. What weapon are the men newly afraid of?
(a) Bombers.
(b) Gas.
(c) Tanks.
(d) Samurai.

4. What before-battle activity was heavily debated between Baumer, Kat, and Tjaden?
(a) Singing the German national anthem.
(b) Praying to God.
(c) Eating a full meal.
(d) Putting on the heavy chest-armor issued to all the men.

5. What did everyone in the world say "yes" to?
(a) Less power for the Kaiser.
(b) The war.
(c) The payment of war reparations from Germany.
(d) More rations.

6. How many cakes does Baumer give to the Russians?
(a) All of them.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) None.

7. Who tricks the Russian prisoners into giving them their clothes and crafts?
(a) Kantorek.
(b) The Territorials.
(c) The Sergeant-Major.
(d) Peasants.

8. How was Müller killed?
(a) He steps on a mine.
(b) He is obliterated by artillery.
(c) His is nailed in the head by a sniper.
(d) He is shot in the stomach.

9. What is wrong with Paul's mother?
(a) She has gone insane.
(b) She has cancer.
(c) She is angry that Paul did not bring more food.
(d) She cannot remember her son.

10. What part of 1918 is the bloodiest yet?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Winter.

11. Beside Baumer's training camp there is a prison of soldiers from what country?
(a) France.
(b) Russia.
(c) Canada.
(d) England.

12. In what month was Paul killed?
(a) November.
(b) December.
(c) January.
(d) October.

13. How many days leave does Baumer get in total?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) One week.

14. What has Baumer's mother been all her life?
(a) Sickly.
(b) Curious.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Vindictive.

15. How many reinforcements does the company need?
(a) Dozens.
(b) More than the Kaiser can supply.
(c) At least eighty.
(d) Over a hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens on a foggy morning at the training camp?

2. What did the army reports say on the day Paul died?

3. What does Baumer's mother send to him before he leaves?

4. What part of the war are the men particularly angry about?

5. What do the men find to eat?

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