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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 personal problem does Tjaden have?
(a) He is claustrophobic.
(b) He isn't very smart.
(c) He is an alcoholic.
(d) He is a bed-wetter.

2. What do the men throw at the enemy soldiers?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Knives.
(c) Empty rifles with bayonets.
(d) Bombs.

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

4. What card game are the men playing?
(a) Hearts.
(b) Ichen.
(c) Poker.
(d) Skat.

5. Who is fatally wounded in the back?
(a) Haie.
(b) Kropp.
(c) Katczinsky.
(d) Baumer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it a tedious exercise to kill?

2. What does Tjaden call Himmelstoss?

3. How many recruits die for each one veteran killed?

4. What do the men have to watch out for while riding back in the lorries?

5. How many men survived the last day at the front?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How did the men finally outwit the rats?

4. How does Baumer describe the front? What can save them from danger?

5. What does Kropp think war should be like?

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

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

8. How was Himmelstoss disgraced?

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

10. 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?

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