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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Volpatte overhear the gossip of the gentlemen at the depot?
(a) At a tavern in town.
(b) In an officer's social hall.
(c) From the kitchen, where he is helping.
(d) On the radio.

2. While they are on leave, what does Volpatte remind the rest of the squad of?
(a) They may all be dead in eight days.
(b) They will all become civilians again later.
(c) They are heroes in the people's eyes.
(d) They are fighting to protect the life people enjoy in the city.

3. While on leave, the men see a poster in a store's window display which depicts which of the following?
(a) A German surrendering to French soldiers.
(b) Germans running in terror from the French.
(c) A German terrorizing a French woman.
(d) French soldiers storming a German fortress.

4. What is unusual about the trench that the men hide in?
(a) It is clean.
(b) It is German.
(c) It is unfinished.
(d) It is deep.

5. Where does the narrator meet with Cpl. Marchal?
(a) The Ardennes.
(b) Alleux Wood.
(c) Versailles.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the men, what is the attitude of the army towards plundering civilians?

2. What does Volpatte say about the state of France?

3. What do the men think will be the consequence if the war is remembered?

4. The morning after the final bombardment, why is it impossible to tell the German and the French apart?

5. What do the four Germans initially believe about Paradis and the narrator?

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