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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 does Baumer's mother send to him before he leaves?
(a) Potato-cakes and jam.
(b) Sausage and bread.
(c) New boots.
(d) Woolen underwear.

2. Who is the last survivor of the original group?
(a) Kropp.
(b) Müller.
(c) Katczinsky.
(d) Paul.

3. Where was Paul sitting all day?
(a) On a cart.
(b) In a garden.
(c) In the trenches.
(d) In the dug-out.

4. What will the generation that grows up after Paul's do with his generation?
(a) Push them aside.
(b) Send them to prison.
(c) Use them as cheap labor.
(d) Give them support.

5. What class is Paul mother in in the hospital?
(a) Third.
(b) First.
(c) Second.
(d) Fourth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Baumer's mother undergo for her cancer?

2. Distinctions between the men, such as level of education, can be an advantage, but what else do they bring?

3. What are all the soldiers hoping for?

4. How do the men make a grater?

5. What before-battle activity was heavily debated between Baumer, Kat, and Tjaden?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How does Baumer skin his elbows?

4. How does the French girl make Baumer feel?

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

6. How is Berger wounded?

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

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

9. What happens when an enemy soldier falls into Baumer's shell-hole?

10. What comes over Paul as he lies in the shell-hole? What reassures him?

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