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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the men agree that being unluckily killed or luckily staying alive are not the same thing?
(a) Staying alive feels better.
(b) Everyone died eventually.
(c) Death lasts a long time.
(d) One is more likely than the other.

2. During the offensive, when does the squad come under fire?
(a) When they enter the international trench.
(b) When they cross the barbed-wire.
(c) As soon as they descend the slope.
(d) The instant they leave their trench.

3. Why does Cpl. Bertrand wake the narrator at 2 a.m.?
(a) To help bury bodies.
(b) To talk with him.
(c) For guard duty.
(d) To search for a body.

4. Overall, how do the men feel about the things they carry with them?
(a) They carry only what their officers force them to.
(b) They take great care in the selection and arrangement of carried items.
(c) They don't seem to care at all.
(d) They resent almost everything they have to carry.

5. Volpatte shares the first part of his story just after the squad finishes what type of duty?
(a) Rebuilding a road.
(b) Digging a deep trench.
(c) Patrolling a forested area.
(d) Creating a large dirt pallisade.

Short Answer Questions

1. When first asked to share his story about the depot, what does Volpatte repeat?

2. Why does Tulacque believe that those who drive the artillery pieces to Verdun are not truly in the war?

3. At the end of Chapter 14, what does the narrator dream of?

4. What was the purpose of the patrol that Lamuse, Barque, Biquet, and Eudore died on?

5. According to Cocon, how many divisions comprise a corps?

(see the answer key)

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