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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 happens on a foggy morning at the training camp?
(a) One of the Russians is buried.
(b) Paul gets word that Kantorek has been killed at the front.
(c) One of the Territorials shoots a prisoner.
(d) Baumer's mother dies.

2. What are the men given a shot for in the ambulance wagon?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Meningitis.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Tetanus.

3. Who tricks the Russian prisoners into giving them their clothes and crafts?
(a) The Sergeant-Major.
(b) Kantorek.
(c) Peasants.
(d) The Territorials.

4. What are all the soldiers hoping for?
(a) A breakthrough in the enemy lines.
(b) New tanks.
(c) Resupply.
(d) An armistice.

5. What is on the poster that the men are so fascinated about?
(a) News from the front.
(b) A girl in a summer dress.
(c) An advertisement for a film.
(d) A list of casualties from the most recent attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Paul kill the man in the shell-hole?

2. How was Müller killed?

3. What kind of accent does the singing wireless-man have?

4. What musical instrument does one of the Russian prisoners play?

5. Why was Paul glad when he died?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Baumer feel towards the prisoners? Why? What does he think about the reasons for considering them an enemy?

3. What type of situation does Baumer's family face over his mother's illness?

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

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

6. Why are the men feeling so ill? How are the enemy troops faring?

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

8. How does Baumer feel about being back at the training camp on the moors? What does Remarque use nature to symbolize?

9. Baumer states that when men are living so close to death, life is only expressed in a certain way. How does he say life is expressed? How has Paul changed?

10. How is Berger wounded?

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