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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 do Baumer and Kat want to do to the wounded young recruit?
(a) Carry him to the hospital.
(b) Kill him.
(c) Disinfect his wounds with rum.
(d) Leave him to die.

2. What do the men fear more than tanks and low-flying planes?
(a) Rockets.
(b) Flamethrowers.
(c) Gas.
(d) Special forces.

3. What was the name of the men's platoon leader during training?
(a) Strauss.
(b) Copenhagen.
(c) Beethoven.
(d) Himmelstoss.

4. When do the men return to the lorries?
(a) 4 o'clock.
(b) 6 o'clock.
(c) 3 o'clock.
(d) 5 o'clock.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has his head torn off beside Baumer?

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

3. What did Himmelstoss force Baumer and Kropp to clean the Corporals' Mess with?

4. What did Baumer say Kemmerich had about him?

5. How does Baumer feel towards Kat?

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. How do the men feel when they are at the front?

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

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

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

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