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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the French girl react when Baumer tells her he will never be able to see her again?
(a) She is furious at Baumer.
(b) She tells Baumer that she is pregnant.
(c) She does not really notice.
(d) She tries to explain a plan for them to run away together.

2. 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.

3. What do the men use to cool their machine-gun when they run out of water?
(a) Spit.
(b) Urine.
(c) Clay.
(d) Blood.

4. What weapon are the men newly afraid of?
(a) Samurai.
(b) Bombers.
(c) Tanks.
(d) Gas.

5. What will Baumer's mother undergo for her cancer?
(a) No treatment.
(b) Faith healing.
(c) An operation.
(d) Chemotherapy.

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

7. Who is the last survivor of the original group?
(a) Müller.
(b) Kropp.
(c) Katczinsky.
(d) Paul.

8. What happens to Paul when he is in the shell-holes?
(a) He is overcome by fear.
(b) He kills a man.
(c) He is caught in an enemy attack and must hide.
(d) All of the above.

9. What are the men given a shot for in the ambulance wagon?
(a) Meningitis.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Tetanus.

10. What happened to Kat and Kropp while Baumer was away on leave?
(a) Kat was killed.
(b) Kropp was mortally wounded.
(c) No one knows.
(d) Nothing.

11. What do the men decide to do after seeing the poster?
(a) Sleep, because they are depressed.
(b) Get deloused and find some clean clothes.
(c) Go to town and find prostitutes.
(d) Destroy the picture of the girl.

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

13. Who brought in Haie Westhus when he was wounded?
(a) Baumer.
(b) Himmelstoss.
(c) Kropp.
(d) Tjaden.

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

15. What gives the men terrible bowel troubles?
(a) The potato-cakes.
(b) The constant shelling.
(c) The rotten vegetables.
(d) The pigs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Paul kill the man in the shell-hole?

2. Where was Paul sitting all day?

3. What does Kat say is good for loose bowels?

4. What are the only things that Baumer can talk about with his family before he leaves?

5. What part of the war are the men particularly angry about?

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