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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the purpose of the patrol that Lamuse, Barque, Biquet, and Eudore died on?
(a) To clear an area of mines.
(b) To locate new supplies.
(c) To find a German listening post.
(d) To clear out an international trench.

2. How do the men prevent their cleaned rifles from being stolen by lazy or dishonest soldiers?
(a) They keep watch in pairs.
(b) They disassemble the rifles.
(c) They sleep with their rifles under them.
(d) They put an identifying mark on them.

3. How does Lamuse find Eudoxie's corpse?
(a) He finds her unburied, in a grave.
(b) He sees her body being carried on a stretcher.
(c) Her body is exhumed by the digging.
(d) She is brought into a depot, dead.

4. The narrator describes the field of corpses being processed as being like which of the following?
(a) Hell.
(b) A devil's feast.
(c) A charnel house.
(d) An abattoir.

5. What kind of meat have Blaire, Poupardin, and Pépin acquired when Chapter 18 opens?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Pig.
(c) Dog.
(d) Horse.

6. When the men are on leave, it is evident that Blaire changed in what way?
(a) He can't bear to go back to the front.
(b) He now longs to find a wife.
(c) He no longer cares for civilian life.
(d) He has become and elegant, well-groomed man.

7. Why does Joseph Mesnil go into "no man's land"?
(a) Because he is drunk.
(b) Because he wants to die.
(c) To search for his brother.
(d) To find a German rifle.

8. What does Volpatte repeat as he charges into the machine gun fire?
(a) "Let's go."
(b) "Alright."
(c) "Don't worry."
(d) "Hurry up."

9. What is unique about the 5th battalion?
(a) They are optimistic.
(b) They are lucky and avoided most fights.
(c) They are bloodthirsty and love close-combat.
(d) They are new recruits.

10. Paradis insists that he and the narrator leave the farmhouse before what happens?
(a) Muster is called.
(b) The sun rises.
(c) The old woman's daughter returns.
(d) The regiment's curfew begins.

11. What do Blaire, Poupardin, and Pépin do in order to find a way to cook the meat?
(a) They send Volpatte to complain to Cpl. Bertrand.
(b) Poupardin leads them in foraging.
(c) Blaire tries to get help from another regiment.
(d) Pépin tries to improvise.

12. In Chapter 14, the squad learns that they are headed where?
(a) To the front lines.
(b) To the south.
(c) To Paris for leave.
(d) To Verdun.

13. What does a sapper do?
(a) Lays and removes mines.
(b) Scouts out the terrain ahead of a unit.
(c) Builds bridges and fortifications.
(d) Locates enemy units.

14. What hazard do the men face even after they reach the relative safety of the heights?
(a) Barrage fire.
(b) Machine gun fire.
(c) Snipers.
(d) Artillery.

15. What does the German say about the religious services of both sides?
(a) They are the same.
(b) They are different.
(c) They are both hypocritical.
(d) They are pointless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about the trench that the men hide in?

2. What does Paradis do for the old woman that he and the narrator find at the farmhouse?

3. What does the Foreign Legionnaire try to give to his comrade?

4. In Chapter 15, when the men run low on supplies, what does the narrator give to Paradis?

5. The German in the refuge served as which of the following?

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