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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the arrival of the Moroccan Division mean to the men of Cpl. Bertrand's squad?
(a) An offensive will soon begin.
(b) They will be placed on leave.
(c) An attack by the enemy is expected.
(d) High command is unhappy with their part of the front.

2. In general, what opinion do the soldiers have of the local women?
(a) They are ugly.
(b) They cook poorly.
(c) They are prudish.
(d) They are friendly.

3. Who is sent with the narrator to find the missing Volpatte and Fouillade?
(a) Barque.
(b) Marchal.
(c) Bertrand.
(d) Farfadet.

4. "Trench Tourists" refers to which of the following?
(a) Journalists.
(b) Soldiers on a short deployment.
(c) Rats.
(d) High command visiting the trenches.

5. The characters introduced in Chapter 2 are part of what type of squad?
(a) An engineering squad.
(b) A medical squad.
(c) A reserve squad.
(d) A front-line squad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't the men want to get drunk the night before returning to the trenches?

2. Who is Eudoxie?

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

4. The narrator describes the field of corpses being processed as being like which of the following?

5. Why do the other men try to coax Volpatte into sharing his story?

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