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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of 1918 is the bloodiest yet?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Winter.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

2. What is on the poster that the men are so fascinated about?
(a) A list of casualties from the most recent attack.
(b) An advertisement for a film.
(c) News from the front.
(d) A girl in a summer dress.

3. Why does Baumer go out on patrol?
(a) To help collect the dead soldiers.
(b) To keep the enemy on guard.
(c) To keep him feeling like a soldier.
(d) Because he feels an attachment to his comrades.

4. What are the only things that Baumer can talk about with his family before he leaves?
(a) The weather and some soldier's jokes.
(b) How strange it was to be back home, and some soldier's jokes.
(c) How wonderful it was to be home and some soldier's jokes.
(d) His mother's illness and some soldier's jokes.

5. How do the men make a grater?
(a) By tying together several bayonets.
(b) By punching holes in a pot-lid.
(c) By packing a bunch of barbed wire.
(d) By breaking off bits of a knife-blade.

6. What disease do the prisoners have?
(a) The plague.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Cholera.

7. What was Leer good at in school, though it could not save him?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Art.
(c) Gym class.
(d) Sport shooting.

8. How was Müller killed?
(a) He is shot in the stomach.
(b) He steps on a mine.
(c) His is nailed in the head by a sniper.
(d) He is obliterated by artillery.

9. Who is the first family member to see Paul when he returns home on leave?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His sister.
(d) His brother.

10. What did the man that Baumer kills do for a living?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Printer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Postman.

11. What is wrong with Paul's mother?
(a) She is angry that Paul did not bring more food.
(b) She cannot remember her son.
(c) She has cancer.
(d) She has gone insane.

12. Where do the men think they will be going?
(a) Back home to defend Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) England.

13. Who is coming to inspect the men?
(a) The Commandante.
(b) The Prussian.
(c) The Kaiser.
(d) Kantorek.

14. What class is Paul mother in in the hospital?
(a) First.
(b) Second.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Third.

15. Why was Paul glad when he died?
(a) The end had finally come.
(b) He liked pain.
(c) He was going to rejoin his friends.
(d) The war would soon end.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon are the men newly afraid of?

2. Who is the last survivor of the original group?

3. What does Detering collect from a tree?

4. What type of expression was on Paul's face when he died?

5. Who does Baumer fail to notice on the street?

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