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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 haunts Baumer as he stands on guard after the attack?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) Memories.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Celebration music from the rear-guard.

2. What bed is Kemmerich in?
(a) Thirty-two.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Twenty-six.
(d) Nineteen.

3. What "game" did Himmelstoss used to make the men play?
(a) Parts of the 98 rifle.
(b) The cook-house game.
(c) Fall forward.
(d) Change at Lohne.

4. What does an old buffer describe the men as?
(a) Young trouble-makers.
(b) Young heroes.
(c) Too young to know better.
(d) Young idiots.

5. What does Baumer fall in when counter-attacking the French?
(a) A trench.
(b) Someone's belly.
(c) A dug-out.
(d) Love with a French girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What card game are the men playing?

2. What is Tjaden's national dish?

3. What did Baumer say Kemmerich had about him?

4. What is the cook's name?

5. What does every soldier believe in and trust?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Kantorek do to the men?

2. What is Kat's special talent? What does he do for the men?

3. Describe the bond that exists between Baumer and Kropp.

4. How do the men get their revenge on Himmelstoss?

5. Why do the men prefer sharpened shovels to bayonets?

6. What does Himmelstoss prove about his character in this chapter?

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

8. How does Detering he react to the wounded horses, and why? What is his opinion of horses in warfare?

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. When Baumer emerges from the hospital following Kemmerich's death, his head is suddenly filled with images of girls, meadows, clouds, and he seems to feel energized. Why do you think he feels this way?

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