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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gives the men terrible bowel troubles?
(a) The rotten vegetables.
(b) The constant shelling.
(c) The potato-cakes.
(d) The pigs.

2. What did Detering try to do?
(a) Run away to Holland.
(b) Kill Himmelstoss and himself.
(c) Steal Paul's bread.
(d) Escape and go home.

3. What does Detering collect from a tree?
(a) Avocados.
(b) Cherry blossoms.
(c) Pears.
(d) Bare branches.

4. Who tricks the Russian prisoners into giving them their clothes and crafts?
(a) The Territorials.
(b) Kantorek.
(c) The Sergeant-Major.
(d) Peasants.

5. The men have become instinctual like...
(a) Insects.
(b) Trained dogs.
(c) Hyenas.
(d) Bushmen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month was Paul killed?

2. Where do the men think they will be going?

3. How does the French girl react when Baumer tells her he will never be able to see her again?

4. What do the men find to eat?

5. What are the men's thoughts like?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is nature described throughout All Quiet on the Western Front? What does this symbolism mean?

2. How is Berger wounded?

3. How does Baumer feel about being back at the training camp on the moors? What does Remarque use nature to symbolize?

4. What does Kropp decide to do if his leg is amputated? Why do the doctors amputate so quickly?

5. Why are the men feeling so ill? How are the enemy troops faring?

6. What do the men think about the causes and justifications behind the war?

7. What does Paul think about after the man dies? What does this say about his character?

8. How does this book make you feel about war?

9. What condition are the Russian prisoners in? Why are they being treated so harshly?

10. What does Baumer say about being happy during the war? What about the memory of the previous days?

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