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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Thomas doing when someone yells that gas is coming?
(a) Writing a letter home.
(b) Eating.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) On guard duty.

2. What happens when the Germans reach the barbed wire?
(a) They get caught in it and surrender.
(b) They retreat.
(c) They cut it with field pliers.
(d) They are slaughtered almost to a man.

3. Where does Thomas go after putting on his gas mask?
(a) The trenches.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The barbed wire fencing.
(d) The firestep.

4. Who does Thomas go to see on leave?
(a) His friend who is still recovering from wounds.
(b) No one.
(c) Anna.
(d) Charlie.

5. What is Thomas told back at the hospital?
(a) He must go home because his lungs are too injured.
(b) His lungs will take a few weeks to totally recover.
(c) He is healthy.
(d) His lungs are slightly compromised.

6. How does Charlie feel about what Molly tells him?
(a) He is happy.
(b) He is depressed.
(c) He does not believe it.
(d) He is angry.

7. Who does Charlie carry on his back to their lines?
(a) The Captain.
(b) Hanley.
(c) Thomas.
(d) The wounded German.

8. What happens when the Germans go into retreat?
(a) Thomas' company is ordered to stand down.
(b) Thomas' company is ordered to pursue.
(c) Thomas' company starts celebrating.
(d) Thomas' company stands in a stupor.

9. Where are Thomas, Charlie, and their local friends sent?
(a) To another unit.
(b) On leave.
(c) To a special training school.
(d) To the front.

10. What happens to Hanley?
(a) He is captured.
(b) He is badly wounded.
(c) He returns to the trench where Charlie and Thomas are.
(d) He is killed.

11. What happens when a German comes out from behind a curtain?
(a) He raises his hands and surrenders.
(b) The German and the English stare at each other for a minute.
(c) He falls to the ground and begs for his life.
(d) He starts shooting at the English.

12. On what day does Charlie say he was born?
(a) January 1.
(b) November 22.
(c) June 2.
(d) October 5.

13. What does the German soldier tell Thomas when he aims a gun to Thomas' head?
(a) Sorry.
(b) Pray.
(c) You're dead.
(d) Run.

14. Why do the Germans begin to bombard their former trenches?
(a) To explode the abandoned ammunition.
(b) To ruin the trenches.
(c) They do not bombard their former trenches.
(d) To drive the Allies back.

15. What outnumbers the people at the next duty assignment?
(a) Horses.
(b) Rats.
(c) Cats.
(d) Animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Charlie, Thomas, and the rest of the trainees think of the war during boot camp?

2. What did Thomas used to do at The Duke that he no longer does?

3. What does Charlie say to Hanley?

4. What is hanging on the peg that used to be for Thomas and Charlie's father's coat?

5. What caused most of the casualties?

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