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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 the men decide to do after seeing the poster?
(a) Destroy the picture of the girl.
(b) Get deloused and find some clean clothes.
(c) Go to town and find prostitutes.
(d) Sleep, because they are depressed.

2. What are the only things that Baumer can talk about with his family before he leaves?
(a) The weather and some soldier's jokes.
(b) How strange it was to be back home, and some soldier's jokes.
(c) How wonderful it was to be home and some soldier's jokes.
(d) His mother's illness and some soldier's jokes.

3. Beside Baumer's training camp there is a prison of soldiers from what country?
(a) Russia.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Canada.

4. What did the man that Baumer kills do for a living?
(a) Printer.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Postman.

5. How was Müller killed?
(a) He is obliterated by artillery.
(b) His is nailed in the head by a sniper.
(c) He steps on a mine.
(d) He is shot in the stomach.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are all the soldiers hoping for?

2. What do the men use to cool their machine-gun when they run out of water?

3. How many days leave does Baumer get in total?

4. What is wrong with Paul's mother?

5. What type of license allows a man to do what he wants?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do the men act while eating caviar? Why do they do this?

4. How is nature described throughout All Quiet on the Western Front? What does this symbolism mean?

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

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

7. What does Kropp decide to do if his leg is amputated? Why do the doctors amputate so quickly?

8. How is Company Commander Bertink killed?

9. How does Baumer skin his elbows?

10. What do the men think about the causes and justifications behind the war?

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