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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes the field of corpses being processed as being like which of the following?
(a) Hell.
(b) An abattoir.
(c) A charnel house.
(d) A devil's feast.

2. What interests Volpatte the most while the men are on leave?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Prostitutes.
(c) The theater.
(d) Pastries.

3. Where is the squad dispatched at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) To the Ardennes.
(b) To the front.
(c) To Egypt.
(d) To the reserves area.

4. How do the narrator and the others find Bertrand's body?
(a) Stretched out like a cross.
(b) Partially severed at the waist.
(c) Grotesquely bloated.
(d) In several pieces.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men concede with regards to the "shirkers"?

2. "Trench Tourists" refers to which of the following?

3. Cpl. Marchal has what relationship to the narrator?

4. In their deployment after Gauchin-l'Abbé, what is unusual about all the buildings and equipment?

5. Why were the executed veteran's accomplices sentenced to life in prison and not executed?

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