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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Haie often dream of?
(a) Being killed in battle.
(b) The beating they gave to Himmelstoss.
(c) The abuse he received at the hands of Himmelstoss.
(d) Going home and forgetting about the war.

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

3. What does a double ration of sausage and bread put a man in?
(a) A happy place.
(b) A hospital bed.
(c) A decent state.
(d) A fine trim.

4. How old is Kemmerich?
(a) Almost twenty-one.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Nineteen and a half.
(d) Not a day over twenty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives at the front lines?

2. What do Baumer and Kat want to do to the wounded young recruit?

3. According to Kat, why does a trained dog snap at a piece of meat?

4. What flowers fill the meadow that the men are sitting in?

5. What is the men's sole ambition?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where are the characters, and how are they feeling? Where did their "luck" come from?

2. Baumer muses that "the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men". Why do you think this is?

3. What does Kropp think war should be like?

4. How does Baumer feel at the end of this chapter?

5. How did the men break Himmelstoss' power over them?

6. How do the men react when they are finally attacked?

7. Describe Corporal Himmelstoss.

8. Why would a soldier be happy to receive a broken arm?

9. Katczinsky recites the rhyme "Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay / And the war would be over and done in a day". What do you think this means?

10. In this chapter, Katczinsky makes a long speech about why the officers behave the way they do. What does he say?

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