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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 training beside basic military training did Guy Sajer receive in his unit?
(a) Repair training.
(b) Tank shell loading training.
(c) Tank driving training.
(d) Truck driving training.

2. What does Sajer say of Hals' physique?
(a) He was athletic.
(b) He was short.
(c) He was enormous.
(d) He was slender.

3. What was the entrance to the bomb shelter Sajer tried to enter during a bombing in Berlin blocked by?
(a) A pile of bodies.
(b) Plane wreckage.
(c) An unexploded bomb.
(d) Rubble.

4. What did the German soldiers do with the Russian wounded?
(a) They were let go.
(b) They were killed or left to die.
(c) They were treated.
(d) They were put on the trucks.

5. What happened to the Russian prisoners after the counter-thrust in Part 2 Chapter 6?
(a) They were offered the option to join the German army.
(b) They were interrogated.
(c) They were sent to Germany.
(d) They were shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Guy Sajer say of the additional training he received in his unit?

2. What was Guy Sajer's father's country of origin?

3. How many trucks did Sajer's small detachment drive from Minsk to Kiev a few days after Christmas 1942?

4. What did Sajer find perplexing after frequently being under artillery fire?

5. What did the occupants of the train Sajer saw heading west in Part 1 Chapter 1 use to deflect the wind from their train car?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the weather as the Germans started to retreat from the Don River and what effect did it have on the landscape?

2. What was the first offensive Sajer participated in with his new unit?

3. How many soldiers were involved in the Belgorod offensive according to Sajer?

4. Who did Sajer drive with during the German retreat from the Don River and what happened to that person?

5. How does Sajer say Russian prisoners were transported back to the prisoner's camp?

6. What happened to the truck Sajer drove during the German retreat from the Don River?

7. What clothes does Sajer say he had after exiting the water in the Author's Preface and Prologue?

8. What food does Sajer say he and his unit were given before departing for Poland?

9. What did Sajer decide to do with his leave pass?

10. What were the soldiers disgusted by according to Sajer in Part 1- Russia?

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