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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Baumer leaves the hospital, what does he suddenly think of?
(a) Maids, grassy fields, and grasshoppers.
(b) Women, alehouses, and golden sunsets.
(c) Girls, flowery meadows, and white clouds.
(d) Ladies, blue skies, and romantic evenings.

2. What does an old buffer describe the men as?
(a) Young trouble-makers.
(b) Young idiots.
(c) Young heroes.
(d) Too young to know better.

3. What personal problem does Tjaden have?
(a) He is claustrophobic.
(b) He is a bed-wetter.
(c) He isn't very smart.
(d) He is an alcoholic.

4. According to Kat, why does a trained dog snap at a piece of meat?
(a) Blood-lust.
(b) Because he was trained to.
(c) It's his nature.
(d) He's always hungry.

5. Katczinsky said the war wouldn't be so bad if they could just get enough...
(a) Sleep.
(b) Women.
(c) Food.
(d) Action.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the men at rest five miles from?

2. How many deaths does the orderly think there will be on the day Kemmerich dies?

3. How many men survived the last day at the front?

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

5. When men such as Himmelstoss get a star or a stripe, it is as though they have swallowed...

(see the answer key)

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