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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the anonymous individuals who make speculations in the first chapter?
(a) Invalids in a sanatorium.
(b) The ghosts of dead soldiers.
(c) Generals.
(d) Inmates in a prison.

2. What do the soldiers compare two armies fighting to?
(a) A drowning wave.
(b) A single army committing mass suicide.
(c) A raging fire.
(d) Two blind beasts fighting.

3. Why does Barque suggest that the author might have the characters in his book use "big words" instead of speaking naturally?
(a) To make the book more sophisticated.
(b) To avoid censorship.
(c) To make them seem like better people.
(d) To gloss over the ugliness of war.

4. Why can Blaire, Poupardin, and Pépin not cook their meat?
(a) There is no cooking equipment.
(b) They have no way to light a fire.
(c) There is no firewood.
(d) They are not allowed to start a fire.

5. The morning after the final bombardment, why is it impossible to tell the German and the French apart?
(a) They are hopelessly mixed together.
(b) It is too dark.
(c) Their uniforms are tattered.
(d) They are covered in mud.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator compares Lamuse to what mythological figure?

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

3. What hazard do the men face even after they reach the relative safety of the heights?

4. The soldier being carried by the Territorial stretcher-bearers was killed doing what?

5. Was does Poterloo discover about his wife?

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