View a FREE sample

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) Vicious attacks.
(b) Well-trained soldiers.
(c) Corned beef.
(d) Up-to-date weaponry.

2. Who has his head torn off beside Baumer?
(a) A sergeant.
(b) Katczinsky.
(c) A recruit.
(d) A lance-corporal.

3. Who is coming to the front?
(a) Kantorek.
(b) Himmelstoss.
(c) Baumer.
(d) Katczinsky.

4. How old is Kemmerich?
(a) Nineteen and a half.
(b) Almost twenty-one.
(c) Not a day over twenty.
(d) Eighteen.

5. Who does the crying, fair-haired recruit remind Baumer of?
(a) Kemmerich.
(b) Katczinsky.
(c) Kantorek.
(d) Kropp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Baumer and Kemmerich used to catch in the lane of poplars by the Klosterbach?

2. What do the men fear more than tanks and low-flying planes?

3. What does Haie often dream of?

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

5. What is the last thing the men see before falling asleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Baumer narrowly escape death in the dug-outs?

2. Why would a soldier be happy to receive a broken arm?

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

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

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

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

7. What is Kropp's opinion of what life will be like when the men return home? What does it tell the reader about the effect of war upon a man?

8. How did the men finally outwit the rats?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 837 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample