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 did everyone in the world say "yes" to?
(a) The payment of war reparations from Germany.
(b) More rations.
(c) Less power for the Kaiser.
(d) The war.

2. What must the men do with their new uniforms?
(a) Tear them apart for spare material.
(b) Give them back.
(c) Fold them all as punishment for disrespecting the Kaiser.
(d) Keep them clean or be punished.

3. Why does Paul want to let the months and years come?
(a) He is optimistic about the future.
(b) He has nothing more they can take from him.
(c) He wants to do some more fighting.
(d) He feels happy because of the possibility of peace.

4. Where was Paul sitting all day?
(a) In a garden.
(b) In the dug-out.
(c) In the trenches.
(d) On a cart.

5. What happened to Kat and Kropp while Baumer was away on leave?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Kat was killed.
(c) Kropp was mortally wounded.
(d) No one knows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do eight of the men have to guard in particular?

2. What does Baumer do with the prisoners?

3. What did the army reports say on the day Paul died?

4. Why was Paul glad when he died?

5. How many chapters does All Quiet on the Western Front have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Baumer sad that he gets to be away from the front for so long?

2. What does Baumer expect to face when the war ends? What does he not know?

3. What comes over Paul as he lies in the shell-hole? What reassures him?

4. What happens when an enemy soldier falls into Baumer's shell-hole?

5. What do the men think about being assigned to guard the supply dump?

6. What condition are the Russian prisoners in? Why are they being treated so harshly?

7. How does Paul say his generation has been changed, based on his descriptions of the entire book?

8. How is Company Commander Bertink killed?

9. What does Baumer say about being happy during the war? What about the memory of the previous days?

10. How does this book make you feel about war?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,118 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample