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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 do the men note about the commandant?
(a) He is harsh and capricious.
(b) He hates animals.
(c) He has the accent of a peasant.
(d) He can't smoke a pipe without scorching it.

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

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

4. According to Cocon, how many divisions comprise a corps?
(a) Seven corps.
(b) Two corps.
(c) Four corps.
(d) Ten corps.

5. Why does Joseph Mesnil go into "no man's land"?
(a) To find a German rifle.
(b) To search for his brother.
(c) Because he wants to die.
(d) Because he is drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of establishment does Eudore's wife Mariette run?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 22, how many men from Bertrad's squad survive?

3. How do Volpatte and Fouillade capture the two German soldiers?

4. In Chapter 14, the squad learns that they are headed where?

5. What happens to some of the rats that eat the corpses on the battlefield?

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