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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has a special reason to hate Himmelstoss?
(a) Kropp.
(b) Tjaden.
(c) Baumer.
(d) Katczinsky.

2. Who is Kantorek?
(a) The men's old friend.
(b) The men's old bartender.
(c) The men's old barber.
(d) The men's old schoolmaster.

3. What haunts Baumer as he stands on guard after the attack?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Memories.
(d) Celebration music from the rear-guard.

4. According to Haie, what is revenge?
(a) Chocolate pudding.
(b) Christmas pudding.
(c) White pudding.
(d) Black pudding.

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

6. What was the name of the other soldier who wet the bed?
(a) Kindervater.
(b) Ogden.
(c) Amherst.
(d) Knickerbacker.

7. What is the main character's name?
(a) Paul Baumer.
(b) Albert Kropp.
(c) Haie Westhus
(d) Stanislaus Katczinsky.

8. When men such as Himmelstoss get a star or a stripe, it is as though they have swallowed...
(a) Concrete.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Bullets.
(d) Iron.

9. What distinguishes Kropp from the other characters?
(a) He is the tallest.
(b) He is the most cowardly.
(c) He is the bravest.
(d) He is the clearest thinker.

10. Who hates Himmelstoss the most?
(a) Baumer.
(b) Kropp.
(c) Haie.
(d) Tjaden.

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

12. Who is Stanislaus Katczinsky?
(a) The poet of the group.
(b) The follower of the group.
(c) The laughing-stock of the group.
(d) The leader of the group.

13. How many deaths does the orderly think there will be on the day Kemmerich dies?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Forty.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kat's masterpiece was four boxes of...

2. Who arrives at the front lines?

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

4. How long does Kropp say the men have had to endure shells and bombs?

5. What does Himmelstoss threaten to do to Tjaden?

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