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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Detering before he was a soldier?
(a) Veterinarian.
(b) Postman.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Doctor.

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

3. What does Tjaden call Himmelstoss?
(a) A squawking bird.
(b) A stupid cow.
(c) A dirty hound.
(d) A stinky pig.

4. What does Baumer grab for the men's dinner?
(a) A pig.
(b) A goose.
(c) A bag of apples.
(d) A bulldog.

5. Who died of an inflammation of the lung?
(a) Adolph.
(b) Segur.
(c) Reynold.
(d) Wolf.

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

7. What are the men at rest five miles from?
(a) The front.
(b) The beach.
(c) Germany.
(d) Headquarters.

8. Who is bothered the most by the sound of the wounded horses?
(a) Baumer.
(b) Detering.
(c) Kropp.
(d) The fair-haired recruit.

9. What did Baumer and Kemmerich used to catch in the lane of poplars by the Klosterbach?
(a) Grasshoppers.
(b) Chazwazzels.
(c) Sticklebacks.
(d) Pollywogs.

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

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

12. What job is Müller well suited for?
(a) Couch potato.
(b) Peat-digger.
(c) Police officer.
(d) Schoolmaster.

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

14. Where do the men take cover from the heavy shelling?
(a) The house where Kat saw the geese.
(b) The woods.
(c) A graveyard.
(d) The burned-out lorries.

15. What name do the men call the British?
(a) Yanks.
(b) Teapots.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Tommies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Haie Westhus?

2. Who is Tjaden?

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

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

5. What do the men salvage for parts to send home?

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