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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it a tedious exercise to kill?
(a) Englishmen.
(b) Lice.
(c) Flamethrower troops.
(d) The bacteria that cause trench-foot.

2. Why does Kat think they are losing the war?
(a) They salute too well.
(b) The British artillery is too accurate.
(c) The commanders are incompetent.
(d) They spend too much time sleeping.

3. What new danger do the men face while taking cover?
(a) The living dead.
(b) Bayonnets.
(c) Incendiary rounds.
(d) Gas.

4. What does a double ration of sausage and bread put a man in?
(a) A happy place.
(b) A hospital bed.
(c) A decent state.
(d) A fine trim.

5. What did Baumer say Kemmerich had about him?
(a) Something of the man.
(b) Something of a soldier.
(c) Something of the girl.
(d) Something special.

6. Who does the crying, fair-haired recruit remind Baumer of?
(a) Katczinsky.
(b) Kantorek.
(c) Kropp.
(d) Kemmerich.

7. What is Kropp's first name?
(a) Frederick.
(b) Albert.
(c) Hans.
(d) Paul.

8. When Kemmerich died, what did his eyes resemble?
(a) Yellow horn buttons.
(b) Yellow dandelions.
(c) Yellow old ivory coasters.
(d) Yellow gold coins.

9. When men such as Himmelstoss get a star or a stripe, it is as though they have swallowed...
(a) Bullets.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Iron.
(d) Concrete.

10. Where do the men take cover from the heavy shelling?
(a) The house where Kat saw the geese.
(b) The burned-out lorries.
(c) A graveyard.
(d) The woods.

11. Who is bothered the most by the sound of the wounded horses?
(a) Kropp.
(b) The fair-haired recruit.
(c) Detering.
(d) Baumer.

12. Why do the men know they are near the sea?
(a) They can smell the water.
(b) They can feel the cold.
(c) They can hear seabirds.
(d) They find a boat.

13. What word describes almost all sergeant-majors?
(a) Fat.
(b) Loud.
(c) Mean.
(d) Drunk.

14. What do the men wrap Himmelstoss in when they beat him?
(a) A bed cover.
(b) A pillowcase.
(c) Tow cable.
(d) Wire bedding.

15. Why does the orderly glance at Kemmerich and then leave?
(a) He is doing the rounds.
(b) He is waiting, and wants the bed.
(c) He is preparing to euthanize him.
(d) He is checking up on him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many recruits die for each one veteran killed?

2. What does an old buffer describe the men as?

3. Who is Kantorek?

4. What do the men have to watch out for while riding back in the lorries?

5. What do the men try to find for two days?

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