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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author call the useless things that the men carry with them?
(a) Their "treasures."
(b) Their "burdens."
(c) Their "souvenirs."
(d) Their "crutches."

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

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

4. What happens to some of the rats that eat the corpses on the battlefield?
(a) They die of poisoning.
(b) They are caught and eaten by hungry soldiers.
(c) They fight over corpses and kill each other.
(d) They are shot by the soldiers.

5. At the end of Chapter 14, what does the narrator dream of?
(a) A great, unknown light.
(b) The front.
(c) The chickens in Gauchin-l'Abbé.
(d) His hometown.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the men think is the best way to augment their meager wages?

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

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

5. What does Cocon calculate about the squad?

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