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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 is missing from the naked soldier sitting in the tree, other than his clothes?
(a) His legs.
(b) His head.
(c) His helmet.
(d) His arms.

2. What do the men decide to do after seeing the poster?
(a) Sleep, because they are depressed.
(b) Go to town and find prostitutes.
(c) Destroy the picture of the girl.
(d) Get deloused and find some clean clothes.

3. Why does Baumer go out on patrol?
(a) To keep him feeling like a soldier.
(b) To help collect the dead soldiers.
(c) Because he feels an attachment to his comrades.
(d) To keep the enemy on guard.

4. Who is the first family member to see Paul when he returns home on leave?
(a) His mother.
(b) His brother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His father.

5. What is wrong with Paul's mother?
(a) She has gone insane.
(b) She has cancer.
(c) She is angry that Paul did not bring more food.
(d) She cannot remember her son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Paul want to let the months and years come?

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

3. What happens to Paul when he is in the shell-holes?

4. What part of the war are the men particularly angry about?

5. What are all the soldiers hoping for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Company Commander Bertink killed?

3. How do the men act while eating caviar? Why do they do this?

4. What do the men think about being assigned to guard the supply dump?

5. What does Baumer expect to face when the war ends? What does he not know?

6. What do you think of the ending of All Quiet on the Western Front, and how does it make readers feel? Is it an appropriate ending?

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

8. Why is Baumer sad that he gets to be away from the front for so long?

9. Baumer states that when men are living so close to death, life is only expressed in a certain way. How does he say life is expressed? How has Paul changed?

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

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