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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 find to eat?
(a) Bread, sausage, and bacon.
(b) Eggs, pigs, and butter.
(c) Eggs, pickles, and sauerkraut.
(d) Eggs, chickens, and corn.

2. Where was Paul sitting all day?
(a) In a garden.
(b) On a cart.
(c) In the trenches.
(d) In the dug-out.

3. What makes seven?
(a) Three whole-wits plus eight half-wits.
(b) Four plus three.
(c) Six men and two half-wits.
(d) Four and a half-wits.

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

5. Why does Paul hesitate to get in the bed in the hospital train?
(a) The sheets are too clean.
(b) He doesn't want to get in without giving the sergeant-major the cigars.
(c) It is an officer's bed.
(d) It is covered with blood from the previous occupant.

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

7. The men have become instinctual like...
(a) Trained dogs.
(b) Hyenas.
(c) Insects.
(d) Bushmen.

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

9. Distinctions between the men, such as level of education, can be an advantage, but what else do they bring?
(a) Promotions within the army.
(b) Welcome remarks and comments.
(c) A full dinner.
(d) Prejudices that have to be overcome.

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

11. What are all the soldiers hoping for?
(a) New tanks.
(b) An armistice.
(c) A breakthrough in the enemy lines.
(d) Resupply.

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

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

14. How many days leave does Baumer get in total?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) One week.

15. What does Baumer's mother send to him before he leaves?
(a) Sausage and bread.
(b) Woolen underwear.
(c) New boots.
(d) Potato-cakes and jam.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Baumer go out on patrol?

2. What is missing from the naked soldier sitting in the tree, other than his clothes?

3. What type of license allows a man to do what he wants?

4. Who tricks the Russian prisoners into giving them their clothes and crafts?

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

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