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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. Why does the orderly glance at Kemmerich and then leave?
(a) He is checking up on him.
(b) He is doing the rounds.
(c) He is preparing to euthanize him.
(d) He is waiting, and wants the bed.

2. What did Baumer say Kemmerich had about him?
(a) Something of a soldier.
(b) Something of the man.
(c) Something special.
(d) Something of the girl.

3. What platoon did Baumer, Kropp, Müller, and Kemmerich join?
(a) Nine.
(b) One.
(c) Eight.
(d) Four.

4. What does Müller carry?
(a) Pictures of his family.
(b) Textbooks.
(c) A French rifle.
(d) A heavy weight on his shoulders.

5. How many deaths does the orderly think there will be on the day Kemmerich dies?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Forty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lohne?

2. Who is fatally wounded in the back?

3. What did Katczinsky trade Ginger for the beans and beef?

4. How many men were wounded by friendly fire in the first night at the front?

5. How many days ago did the soldiers have to relieve the front line?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the young recruits in the dug-out?

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

3. During the card game, the men occasionally drift off into silence. What are they thinking about?

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

5. How does Haie Westhus feel about the difference between military and civilian life?

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

7. How was Himmelstoss disgraced?

8. When referring to Müller and Kemmerich, Baumer he states that they no longer have any sense of "artificial considerations". What do you think he means?

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

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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