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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hazard do the men face even after they reach the relative safety of the heights?
(a) Snipers.
(b) Barrage fire.
(c) Artillery.
(d) Machine gun fire.

2. How is Joseph Mesnil injured?
(a) One of his grenades explodes early.
(b) A sniper shoots him after he takes out a machine gun.
(c) He intentionally runs into machine gun fire after the battle is over.
(d) He is killed in close combat.

3. What interests Volpatte the most while the men are on leave?
(a) Pastries.
(b) The theater.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Prostitutes.

4. During the offensive, when does the squad come under fire?
(a) When they enter the international trench.
(b) As soon as they descend the slope.
(c) When they cross the barbed-wire.
(d) The instant they leave their trench.

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

6. What does Volpatte repeat as he charges into the machine gun fire?
(a) "Hurry up."
(b) "Alright."
(c) "Let's go."
(d) "Don't worry."

7. Overall, how do the men feel about the things they carry with them?
(a) They carry only what their officers force them to.
(b) They resent almost everything they have to carry.
(c) They don't seem to care at all.
(d) They take great care in the selection and arrangement of carried items.

8. What do Blaire, Poupardin, and Pépin do in order to find a way to cook the meat?
(a) Poupardin leads them in foraging.
(b) Blaire tries to get help from another regiment.
(c) They send Volpatte to complain to Cpl. Bertrand.
(d) Pépin tries to improvise.

9. How does Lamuse return to the trench after helping the sappers?
(a) He slinks in, totally depressed.
(b) He is escorted back by military police.
(c) He wanders back, as if by accident.
(d) He runs back, yelling hysterically.

10. What do the men think of all of the things that the army issues them?
(a) They are ugly, but effective.
(b) They are useless, but look good.
(c) They are ugly and of low quality.
(d) They are plain and lack elegance.

11. Paradis insists that he and the narrator leave the farmhouse before what happens?
(a) The old woman's daughter returns.
(b) The sun rises.
(c) The regiment's curfew begins.
(d) Muster is called.

12. What does Paradis do for the old woman that he and the narrator find at the farmhouse?
(a) He gathers firewood for her.
(b) He helps her repair a hole in her roof.
(c) He shares his food with her.
(d) He polishes a pair of boots for her.

13. What does Bertrand say about prophecies?
(a) He doubts them, but always sees them come true.
(b) He despises them.
(c) He fervently believes in them.
(d) He once kidded about believing in them.

14. When the men are on leave, it is evident that Blaire changed in what way?
(a) He has become and elegant, well-groomed man.
(b) He now longs to find a wife.
(c) He can't bear to go back to the front.
(d) He no longer cares for civilian life.

15. The newspaper story says that which of the following was turned up when a civilian's yard was bombed?
(a) An illegal wine cellar.
(b) A treasure chest.
(c) An old graveyard.
(d) German spies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the survivors of Bertrand's squad sent for their leave?

2. According to Cocon, how many villages has the squad quartered in?

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

4. What are the "Zouaves' Cells"?

5. What is unique about the 5th battalion?

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