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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is dead?
2. What does Baumer trade to a sergeant-major for a place with Kropp on the hospital train?
3. What does Baumer do with the prisoners?
4. Why does Paul hesitate to get in the bed in the hospital train?
5. What must the men do with their new uniforms?
Short Essay Questions
1. What comes over Paul as he lies in the shell-hole? What reassures him?
2. What do you think of the ending of All Quiet on the Western Front, and how does it make readers feel? Is it an appropriate ending?
3. What does Baumer expect to face when the war ends? What does he not know?
4. 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?
5. What does Paul think about after the man dies? What does this say about his character?
6. How do the men act while eating caviar? Why do they do this?
7. How does this book make you feel about war?
8. What condition are the Russian prisoners in? Why are they being treated so harshly?
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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay explaining one of these two points:
1 - Why young men should join the army and serve their country.
2 - Why giving one's life in war should never be asked of a citizen.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay explaining the development of conventions on chemical warfare throughout history, especially those that came as a direct result of the First World War.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay describing the effect of female involvement in the First World War upon Women's Rights.
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