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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Biquet's response to his mother's concern for him as expressed in her letter?
(a) He is worried.
(b) He is totally unphased.
(c) He is amused.
(d) He immediately writes back to console her.

2. How do Volpatte and Fouillade capture the two German soldiers?
(a) The Germans came across the lines to surrender.
(b) The soldiers accidentally fall into their shell hole.
(c) They tell the Germans they are scouts for an entire battalion.
(d) They surprise the soldiers at night.

3. What does Volpatte say about the four great rivers of France?
(a) They cannot wash the battlefields clean.
(b) They would be choked by the wounded men who are dying.
(c) Only they could cleanse the depots.
(d) They will all run red with blood.

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

5. What is unusual about the road that the narrator and Poterloo take to get to Souchez?
(a) It is burning in places.
(b) It has been destroyed by artillery fire.
(c) It is lined with corpses.
(d) It is slick with blood.

6. Cpl. Bertrand is described as being which of the following?
(a) Courageous.
(b) Insane.
(c) Aloof.
(d) Argumentative.

7. How does the narrator feel about the trench completed in Chapter 12?
(a) He admires it's fine construction.
(b) He thinks it is worthless.
(c) He knows it will be destroyed by artillery.
(d) He thinks it was poorly designed.

8. Why can Eudore's five friends not make it to their real destination?
(a) The road washed out.
(b) It turned into an army depot.
(c) It is a war-zone.
(d) It has been leveled by artillery.

9. In their deployment after Gauchin-l'Abbé, what is unusual about all the buildings and equipment?
(a) They are camouflaged.
(b) They are modern.
(c) They are painted flat black.
(d) They are civilian-grade.

10. Which soldier besides Lamuse believes the Eudoxie is infatuated with him?
(a) Farfadet.
(b) Blair.
(c) Paradis.
(d) Volpatte.

11. What is Tirloir's nickname?
(a) Old boots.
(b) Brass tacks.
(c) The grumbler.
(d) Lock and stock.

12. When Chapter 2 opens, how long has the war been going on?
(a) One year.
(b) 15 months.
(c) 22 days.
(d) Three years.

13. Where do the men of Cpl. Bertrand's squad hope to be sent for rest?
(a) Paris.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Italy.
(d) Spain.

14. What kind of a structure does the squad occupy during the violent rainstorm in Chapter 11?
(a) A lone tavern.
(b) A collapsing barn.
(c) An abandoned estate.
(d) An old fortress.

15. Who bargains with the civilian woman for space to sleep and eat?
(a) Eudoxie.
(b) Fouillade.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Lamuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Labri?

2. Tirette is best described as which of the following?

3. What does Eudoxie do when Lamuse announces his feelings to her?

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

5. While watching the chickens, what dose Paradis see?

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