What has happened to Kantorek?

He was forced is enlist and is serving under one of his former students.

He was put in Paul’s company.

After Tjaden and Kropp “accidentally” spill the latrine bucket on Himmelstoss, how are they punished?

by assigning them to cleaning detail

How does Paul react when he finds Himmelstoss cowering in the dugout / trench?

He becomes angry and throws him out head first.

He screams at him, then leaves.

He asks if Himmelstoss is okay.

If the war were over, the men say the first thing they would do is:

take the next train home to mother

find a woman and stay in bed for a week

What event causes Detering to become outraged?

The horses screaming, lying wounded on the battlefield.

Food being wasted during an attack.

Having to bribe the orderly to give Kemmerich morphia.

Paul witnesses which of the following?

Rats swarming through the trenches.

Shattered dead men hanging in tree branches.

Paul feels guilt and sorrow over killing when he

stabs a French soldier in a foxhole and must watch him slowly die.

confides to his mother about being afraid.

talks to a girl about his experiences.

is questioned by Franz Kemmerich’s mother about whether her son suffered.

The situation of Paul’s death is ironic because he dies

on a quiet day shortly before the war ends.

while playing cards instead of fighting.

during the bloodiest battle of the war.

while proudly carrying the German flag.

Narrator of the story, loses his useful idealism through fighting in the war, kind, compassionate, sensitive, war experience has made him detached from his feelings.

Simple, peace-loving farmer, a loner, longs desperately to return home to his wife and children.

A locksmith in civilian life, skinny despite his appetite and eating habits, holds a deep grudge against Himmelstoss.

Hard-headed, practical, still carries textbooks and dreams of exams, can sometimes be tactless.

40 years old, cobbler in civilian life, shrew, resourceful, talent for finding food.

Schoolmaster who persuades Paul and his friends to join the army, represents the older generation’s belief that warfare is a legitimate expression of patriotism.

Gigantic, burly man who was a peat-digger before the war, plans to serve full time in the army after the war is over.

Clearest thinker of Paul’s classmates, enjoys good discussion, tends to have a cheerful outlook, although not immune to despair, interested in analyzing the causes of war, gets wounded with Paul.

Grew up with Paul, dies after his leg is amputated, leaves his boots to Müller .

The first of Paul’s classmates to die, didn’t want to enlist but caved under the pressure of Kantorek and his own feelings of being a coward. His ugly, painful death shattered his classmates’ trust in authorities who convinced them to take part in the war.

Schoolmaster who persuades Paul and his friends to join the army, represents the older generation’s belief that warfare is a legitimate expression of patriotism.

A locksmith in civilian life, skinny despite his appetite and eating habits, holds a deep grudge against Himmelstoss.

Simple, peace-loving farmer, a loner, longs desperately to return home to his wife and children.

Grew up with Paul, dies after his leg is amputated, leaves his boots to Müller.

Gigantic, burly man who was a peat-digger before the war, plans to serve full time in the army after the war is over.

Hard-headed, practical, still carries textbooks and dreams of exams, can sometimes be tactless.

40 years old, cobbler in civilian life, shrew, resourceful, talent for finding food.

Schoolmaster who persuades Paul and his friends to join the army, represents the older generation’s belief that warfare is a legitimate expression of patriotism.

Gigantic, burly man who was a peat-digger before the war, plans to serve full time in the army after the war is over.

The first of Paul’s classmates to die, didn’t want to enlist but caved under the pressure of Kantorek and his own feelings of being a coward. His ugly, painful death shattered his classmates’ trust in authorities who convinced them to take part in the war.

A postman in civilian life, known as “the Terror of Klosterberg,” terrified of combat but proves himself to be a decent man after fighting on the front.