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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the men respond when asked to describe life on the front?
(a) They lie, underplaying its horrors.
(b) They make up heroic stories about themselves.
(c) They embellish its hardships.
(d) They describe the situation honestly.

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

3. How is the refuge destroyed?
(a) The retreating French blow it up.
(b) By an artillery shell.
(c) It collapses without warning.
(d) The Germans set fire to it.

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

5. What irritates the men the most about the shirkers?
(a) They try to act like comrades to real soldiers.
(b) They have better wages.
(c) They brag of their exploits.
(d) They wear their uniforms in the safety of the city.

6. What does Volpatte say about the state of France?
(a) There are two Frances, and there are too many on the happy side.
(b) It is bound to fall apart.
(c) It has not changed since the revolution, and will never change.
(d) It can never be defeated.

7. How does Lamuse find Eudoxie's corpse?
(a) He sees her body being carried on a stretcher.
(b) He finds her unburied, in a grave.
(c) She is brought into a depot, dead.
(d) Her body is exhumed by the digging.

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

9. When the author says that each poilu "carries his crowd along," what does the "crowd" refer to?
(a) Photographs of family and friends.
(b) Trophies, keepsakes, and knickknacks.
(c) Squadmates.
(d) Lice, tics, and other bugs.

10. What is an international trench?
(a) A trench with parts occupied by opposing forces.
(b) A trench built in no-man's land.
(c) A trench containing troops from different allied nations.
(d) A trench built by multiple allied nations.

11. How does Lamuse react to seeing Eudoxie's body?
(a) He flies into a rage.
(b) He immediately breaks down in shock.
(c) He vomits.
(d) He hugs her.

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

13. 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 are heroes in the people's eyes.
(c) They will all become civilians again later.
(d) They are fighting to protect the life people enjoy in the city.

14. The narrator describes the field of corpses being processed as being like which of the following?
(a) A charnel house.
(b) A devil's feast.
(c) Hell.
(d) An abattoir.

15. What was the purpose of the patrol that Lamuse, Barque, Biquet, and Eudore died on?
(a) To clear out an international trench.
(b) To locate new supplies.
(c) To find a German listening post.
(d) To clear an area of mines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the "Zouaves' Cells"?

2. Paradis insists that he and the narrator leave the farmhouse before what happens?

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

4. What kind of meat have Blaire, Poupardin, and Pépin acquired when Chapter 18 opens?

5. Why does Cpl. Bertrand wake the narrator at 2 a.m.?

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