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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 Kat think they are losing the war?
(a) They salute too well.
(b) They spend too much time sleeping.
(c) The commanders are incompetent.
(d) The British artillery is too accurate.

2. Who died of an inflammation of the lung?
(a) Segur.
(b) Adolph.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Reynold.

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

4. Who is bothered the most by the sound of the wounded horses?
(a) Kropp.
(b) Detering.
(c) The fair-haired recruit.
(d) Baumer.

5. What is the main character's name?
(a) Stanislaus Katczinsky.
(b) Paul Baumer.
(c) Albert Kropp.
(d) Haie Westhus

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men throw at the enemy soldiers?

2. What does Tjaden call Himmelstoss?

3. What was the name of the men's platoon leader during training?

4. Why do the men know they are near the sea?

5. What haunts Baumer as he stands on guard after the attack?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kropp think war should be like?

2. Describe Corporal Himmelstoss.

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

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

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

6. Baumer says that being forced to do things in public restores the innocent nature of all things. What is he talking about?

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

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

9. How did the men finally outwit the rats?

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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