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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the men refer to Germany?
(a) The Homeland.
(b) The Motherland.
(c) The Disneyland.
(d) The Fatherland.

2. What is Lohne?
(a) Baumer's hometown.
(b) The most dangerous area of the front.
(c) A library.
(d) A railway junction.

3. What bed is Kemmerich in?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Twenty-six.
(d) Thirty-two.

4. Where are the soldiers who are not in the mess line or the dressing-station?
(a) Fighting on the front-lines.
(b) Eating breakfast.
(c) Tending to the wounded.
(d) Pushing up daisies.

5. When the men enlisted, what did many of them do for the first time before going to the barracks?
(a) Shave.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Drink.
(d) Have sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Baumer and Kat want to do to the wounded young recruit?

2. What platoon did Baumer, Kropp, Müller, and Kemmerich join?

3. Why do the men know they are near the sea?

4. What does a double ration of sausage and bread put a man in?

5. What was Detering before he was a soldier?

(see the answer key)

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