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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the men try to find for two days?
(a) Their helmets.
(b) The cognac they stole from the French.
(c) A wounded man.
(d) A little sleep.

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

3. What does every soldier believe in and trust?
(a) His comrades.
(b) God.
(c) His rifle.
(d) Chance.

4. What type of cheese are the men given?
(a) Blue.
(b) Brie.
(c) Edamer.
(d) Cheddar.

5. What was the name of the men's platoon leader during training?
(a) Copenhagen.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Strauss.
(d) Himmelstoss.

6. When do the English gunners usually start firing?
(a) Ten o'clock.
(b) Five o'clock.
(c) Eleven o'clock.
(d) Eight thirty.

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

8. What are there rumors of?
(a) Volunteer duty.
(b) A new British weapon.
(c) A spy.
(d) An offensive.

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

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

11. Why does Haie prefer military life to his normal job?
(a) It is clean and fairly comfortable.
(b) He enjoys following orders and can't think for himself.
(c) It gives him an opportunity to kill people.
(d) He likes working with explosives.

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

13. Who has his head torn off beside Baumer?
(a) A lance-corporal.
(b) Katczinsky.
(c) A sergeant.
(d) A recruit.

14. The men were trained to be heroes as if they were...
(a) Circus-ponies.
(b) Circus-performers.
(c) Circus-clowns.
(d) Circus-animals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What game to the men play while locked up?

2. What word describes almost all sergeant-majors?

3. When Kemmerich died, what did his eyes resemble?

4. Who hates Himmelstoss the most?

5. What is the name of the play that Baumer was writing?

(see the answer keys)

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