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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the soldiers who are not in the mess line or the dressing-station?
(a) Pushing up daisies.
(b) Fighting on the front-lines.
(c) Eating breakfast.
(d) Tending to the wounded.

2. When Baumer leaves the hospital, what does he suddenly think of?
(a) Girls, flowery meadows, and white clouds.
(b) Maids, grassy fields, and grasshoppers.
(c) Women, alehouses, and golden sunsets.
(d) Ladies, blue skies, and romantic evenings.

3. Who died of an inflammation of the lung?
(a) Adolph.
(b) Wolf.
(c) Reynold.
(d) Segur.

4. When the men enlisted, what did many of them do for the first time before going to the barracks?
(a) Drink.
(b) Shave.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Have sex.

5. How many deaths does the orderly think there will be on the day Kemmerich dies?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Forty.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kat, why does a trained dog snap at a piece of meat?

2. When Baumer and Kropp spilled raw sewage on Himmelstoss, what did he say it meant for them?

3. What is the main character's name?

4. What does a double ration of sausage and bread put a man in?

5. What pattern is on the bedding in the men's barracks?

(see the answer key)

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