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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Paul have two weeks off?
(a) He was given sanity leave.
(b) He swallowed some gas.
(c) He escaped from the military.
(d) He showed bravery in a recent offensive.

2. How does Paul kill the man in the shell-hole?
(a) With his bare hands.
(b) With his rifle.
(c) With his revolver.
(d) With his knife.

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

4. 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.

5. What does Kropp have at home?
(a) Nothing.
(b) An expensive tie.
(c) White trousers.
(d) Dress shoes.

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

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

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

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

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

11. Who does Baumer fail to notice on the street?
(a) A major, who gets angry at him.
(b) His father, who is furious with him.
(c) His former girlfriend, who is annoyed by him.
(d) His old school friend, who is happy to see him.

12. What part of the war are the men particularly angry about?
(a) Their treatment by military doctors.
(b) The ineffectiveness of the new recruits.
(c) The lack of proper sanitation.
(d) The worn-out barrels of their artillery.

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

14. What has Baumer's mother been all her life?
(a) Curious.
(b) Sickly.
(c) Vindictive.
(d) Lazy.

15. What did everyone in the world say "yes" to?
(a) The war.
(b) The payment of war reparations from Germany.
(c) More rations.
(d) Less power for the Kaiser.

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical instrument does one of the Russian prisoners play?

2. What before-battle activity was heavily debated between Baumer, Kat, and Tjaden?

3. What is on the poster that the men are so fascinated about?

4. Distinctions between the men, such as level of education, can be an advantage, but what else do they bring?

5. What do the men find to eat?

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