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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cocon calculate about the squad?
(a) How many supplies they consumed since formation.
(b) How many miles they marched.
(c) How much weight they carry in total.
(d) How likely they are to survive.

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

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

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

5. When the squad's march comes to a halt, there is always a competition for which of the following?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Place in the food line.
(c) The first watch.
(d) Sleeping space.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the offensive, when does the squad come under fire?

2. How does Pépin die?

3. How long does Joseph wait before receiving aid at the refuge?

4. What happens to some of the rats that eat the corpses on the battlefield?

5. In Chapter 15, one squad in the regiment is rumored to have made a meal out of what?

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