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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Overall, how do the men feel about the things they carry with them?
(a) They carry only what their officers force them to.
(b) They resent almost everything they have to carry.
(c) They don't seem to care at all.
(d) They take great care in the selection and arrangement of carried items.

2. How are Volpatte and Fouillade's positions discovered?
(a) The 204th stumbles across them.
(b) They send up a flare.
(c) They use a signaling mirror.
(d) They sing loudly.

3. What does a sapper do?
(a) Scouts out the terrain ahead of a unit.
(b) Lays and removes mines.
(c) Builds bridges and fortifications.
(d) Locates enemy units.

4. Where is the squad dispatched at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) To the Ardennes.
(b) To the front.
(c) To the reserves area.
(d) To Egypt.

5. What type of establishment does Eudore's wife Mariette run?
(a) A saloon.
(b) A small school.
(c) An inn.
(d) A café.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the gentlemen of the depot take care to avoid Volpatte?

2. When the narrator returns to the squad's quarters after listening to the story of execution, what is Volpatte doing?

3. Who are the anonymous individuals who make speculations in the first chapter?

4. Why does Barque suggest that the author might have the characters in his book use "big words" instead of speaking naturally?

5. What kind of meat have Blaire, Poupardin, and Pépin acquired when Chapter 18 opens?

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