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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 is unique about the 5th battalion?
(a) They are lucky and avoided most fights.
(b) They are new recruits.
(c) They are optimistic.
(d) They are bloodthirsty and love close-combat.

2. The Marist brother, mentioned early in the book, is seen serving what role in the hospital?
(a) Guard.
(b) Quartermaster.
(c) Red Cross sergeant.
(d) Chaplain.

3. Why does Tulacque believe that those who drive the artillery pieces to Verdun are not truly in the war?
(a) They are civilians.
(b) They are not armed.
(c) There is no activity in Verdun.
(d) They are only exposed to danger once.

4. The soldier being carried by the Territorial stretcher-bearers was killed doing what?
(a) Foraging for food.
(b) Looking for a souvenir German rifle.
(c) Trying to defect.
(d) Returning to his unit.

5. What other bloody battle does the narrator recall while escorting Joseph to safety?
(a) Versailles.
(b) The Ardennes.
(c) Benthoval Wood.
(d) Verdun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the gentlemen of the depot jealous of Bourin the Parisian?

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

3. How do the men respond when asked to describe life on the front?

4. When the narrator and the other encounter Eudoxie, what is Lamuse doing?

5. What do the two Moroccans want from the men?

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