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

3. What do the men bring to the French girls as presents?
(a) Food.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Stolen jewellery.
(d) Money.

4. What is wrong with Paul's mother?
(a) She has cancer.
(b) She cannot remember her son.
(c) She has gone insane.
(d) She is angry that Paul did not bring more food.

5. Who brought in Haie Westhus when he was wounded?
(a) Baumer.
(b) Himmelstoss.
(c) Tjaden.
(d) Kropp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Paul sitting all day?

2. What is known about Paul's death?

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

4. What part of the war are the men particularly angry about?

5. What is on the poster that the men are so fascinated about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. How does the French girl make Baumer feel?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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