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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 are the French famous for on the front?
(a) Corned beef.
(b) Vicious attacks.
(c) Well-trained soldiers.
(d) Up-to-date weaponry.

2. What game to the men play while locked up?
(a) Yahtzee.
(b) Charades.
(c) Poker.
(d) Skat.

3. How do the men refer to Germany?
(a) The Disneyland.
(b) The Motherland.
(c) The Homeland.
(d) The Fatherland.

4. When men such as Himmelstoss get a star or a stripe, it is as though they have swallowed...
(a) Dirt.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Iron.
(d) Bullets.

5. Who arrives at the front lines?
(a) Himmelstoss.
(b) Winston Churchill.
(c) The Kaiser.
(d) Kropp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Kantorek?

2. What do the men salvage for parts to send home?

3. When Baumer leaves the hospital, what does he suddenly think of?

4. What is Kat so worried about?

5. Who does the crying, fair-haired recruit remind Baumer of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the men feel about their education?

3. 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?

4. How was Himmelstoss disgraced?

5. What does Kropp think war should be like?

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

7. Why does Tjaden have a special grudge against Himmelstoss?

8. Do you think that it is immoral for Müller to want Kemmerich's boots?

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. What did Kantorek do to the men?

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