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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Volpatte say about the four great rivers of France?
(a) They cannot wash the battlefields clean.
(b) They will all run red with blood.
(c) They would be choked by the wounded men who are dying.
(d) Only they could cleanse the depots.

2. In Chapter 15, one squad in the regiment is rumored to have made a meal out of what?
(a) Labri.
(b) Rats.
(c) Crows.
(d) A stray cat.

3. What does Bertrand say about prophecies?
(a) He once kidded about believing in them.
(b) He despises them.
(c) He doubts them, but always sees them come true.
(d) He fervently believes in them.

4. What are the "Zouaves' Cells"?
(a) Special artillery shells.
(b) Shelters.
(c) Groups of spies.
(d) Forward trenches.

5. What does the author call the useless things that the men carry with them?
(a) Their "treasures."
(b) Their "burdens."
(c) Their "souvenirs."
(d) Their "crutches."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the purpose of the patrol that Lamuse, Barque, Biquet, and Eudore died on?

2. According to Cocon, how many villages has the squad quartered in?

3. Why don't the men want to get drunk the night before returning to the trenches?

4. According to Cocon, each regiment includes how many non-combatants?

5. Why does Cpl. Bertrand wake the narrator at 2 a.m.?

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