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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. How does the French girl react when Baumer tells her he will never be able to see her again?
(a) She tells Baumer that she is pregnant.
(b) She does not really notice.
(c) She tries to explain a plan for them to run away together.
(d) She is furious at Baumer.

2. Who does Baumer fail to notice on the street?
(a) His father, who is furious with him.
(b) His old school friend, who is happy to see him.
(c) His former girlfriend, who is annoyed by him.
(d) A major, who gets angry at him.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon are the men newly afraid of?

2. What does Baumer's mother send to him before he leaves?

3. Why does Paul have two weeks off?

4. What did the man that Baumer kills do for a living?

5. Where was Paul sitting all day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the French girl make Baumer feel?

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

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

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

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

6. How is Company Commander Bertink killed?

7. How is Berger wounded?

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

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

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

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