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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the French famous for on the front?
(a) Up-to-date weaponry.
(b) Corned beef.
(c) Well-trained soldiers.
(d) Vicious attacks.

2. What does a double ration of sausage and bread put a man in?
(a) A happy place.
(b) A fine trim.
(c) A hospital bed.
(d) A decent state.

3. What flowers fill the meadow that the men are sitting in?
(a) Roses.
(b) Daffodills.
(c) Violets.
(d) Poppies.

4. How many days ago did the soldiers have to relieve the front line?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Ten.

5. How many recruits die for each one veteran killed?
(a) Five to seven.
(b) Three to four.
(c) One to two.
(d) Five to ten.

6. 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.

7. What game to the men play while locked up?
(a) Skat.
(b) Yahtzee.
(c) Charades.
(d) Poker.

8. What did Himmelstoss force Baumer and Kropp to clean the Corporals' Mess with?
(a) A toothbrush.
(b) A fine comb.
(c) Nothing but their hands.
(d) A single paper towel.

9. Who is Tjaden?
(a) A rough dockworker.
(b) A skinny locksmith.
(c) A fat accountant.
(d) A young student.

10. How many men survived the last day at the front?
(a) Eighty.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Ninety.
(d) Seventy.

11. Who does the crying, fair-haired recruit remind Baumer of?
(a) Kantorek.
(b) Kropp.
(c) Kemmerich.
(d) Katczinsky.

12. What did Baumer say Kemmerich had about him?
(a) Something of the man.
(b) Something of the girl.
(c) Something special.
(d) Something of a soldier.

13. What nation's troops rush the men's line?
(a) France.
(b) America.
(c) Russia.
(d) England.

14. Who arrives at the front lines?
(a) Kropp.
(b) Himmelstoss.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) The Kaiser.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tjaden's national dish?

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

3. Who is Kantorek?

4. Who is bothered the most by the sound of the wounded horses?

5. Who is coming to the front?

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