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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Kemmerich died, what did his eyes resemble?
(a) Yellow dandelions.
(b) Yellow horn buttons.
(c) Yellow gold coins.
(d) Yellow old ivory coasters.

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

4. What is it a tedious exercise to kill?
(a) Flamethrower troops.
(b) Englishmen.
(c) The bacteria that cause trench-foot.
(d) Lice.

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

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

7. What is the name of the play that Baumer was writing?
(a) Heinrich.
(b) Williams.
(c) Saul.
(d) Mein Strudel.

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

9. How many men were wounded by friendly fire in the first night at the front?
(a) Several.
(b) A dozen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two.

10. What do the men have to watch out for while riding back in the lorries?
(a) Artillery.
(b) Shell-holes.
(c) Snipers.
(d) Hanging wires.

11. Why does Kat think they are losing the war?
(a) The commanders are incompetent.
(b) They salute too well.
(c) They spend too much time sleeping.
(d) The British artillery is too accurate.

12. What do the men wrap Himmelstoss in when they beat him?
(a) A pillowcase.
(b) A bed cover.
(c) Tow cable.
(d) Wire bedding.

13. Kat's masterpiece was four boxes of...
(a) Canned tuna.
(b) Lobsters.
(c) Sauerkraut.
(d) Wine.

14. What new danger do the men face while taking cover?
(a) Bayonnets.
(b) Incendiary rounds.
(c) The living dead.
(d) Gas.

15. How old is Kemmerich?
(a) Not a day over twenty.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Nineteen and a half.
(d) Almost twenty-one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tjaden call Himmelstoss?

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

3. What does Leer prefer?

4. What does an old buffer describe the men as?

5. What is Lohne?

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