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WorksheetsAll Quiet on the Western Front Chapters 1-6 Test
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Who is the narrator of All Quiet on the Western Front?
Paul Kantorek
Paul Bäumer
Paul Müller
Paul Kemmerich
When Paul's company receives a short reprieve from the fighting, how many men remain of the original 150?
20
90
80
100
What does Müller want from his former classmate Kemmerich, who is dying of a thigh wound?
Absolution
His uniform
His boots
His gun
How was the portrayal of war in All Quiet on the Western Front different from most other novels of the time?
It was pro-war
It was pro-English
It romanticized war
It was brutally realistic
Who is the first of Paul’s classmates to die during the war?
Müller
Joseph Behm
Kropp
Kemmerich
Whose boots does Müller want?
Kropp’s
Kemmerich’s
Paul’s
Tjaden’s
For what medical condition that plagues Tjaden does Himmelstoss devise a humiliating cure?
Bad breath
A hernia
Gas
Bed-wetting
Which character has a knack for finding food?
Kropp
Paul
Kat
Tjaden
What did Kantorek encourage his students to do about the war?
Avoid it at all costs.
Emigrate to America
Fight if conscripted; otherwise live at peace.
Patriotically enlist at once.
What happens when half the company is killed at the beginning of the novel?
The survivors receive double rations and enjoy a large meal.
The survivors are emotionally devastated.
The survivors are chastised by the general for letting their comrades die.
The survivors steal the dead men’s clothes.
Who kills the goose?
Paul
Tjaden
Kropp
Kat
What has taken over the men's hair and bodies in chapter 5?
Mosquitos
Flies
Knats
Lice
What does Tjaden do to Himmelstoss to cause him to get into trouble?
He pushes him in the mud.
He slaps him.
He moons him.
He spits on him.
How many men are left who joined the Second Company with Paul and his friends?
20
15
12
5
What is Tjaden's punishment for what he did to Himmelstoss?
He was placed in isolation for 5 days.
He was sentenced to jail for 3 days.
He was removed from the trenches.
He was sent home.
What did Paul and Kat do with the goose feathers?
They made slippers.
They made pillows.
They made ink pens.
They threw them on the guys.
In the graveyard, what does Paul hide under to protect himself from the shelling?
A coffin
A stone tomb
A destroyed car
An upturned cart
What does Kat suggest they should do with the recruit who has been injured in the graveyard?
Leave him
Shoot him
Carry him home
Take him to hospital
Why is Himmelstoss sent to the front?
As a punishment
His leave is over
He is promoted
He requests it
Which two soldiers are put on trial for insubordination towards Himmelstoss?
Kropp and Tjaden
Kat and Tjaden
Paul and Tjaden
Müller and Tjaden
What do Kat and Paul do at the house where they earlier heard geese?
Hide out
Roast a goose
Play with a goose
Free a goose
What do most soldiers in the trench do to try to distract themselves from their waiting?
Kill lice
Play cards
Beat up recruits
Write poetry
What do memories of the past bring Paul?
Desire
Faint hope
Disgust
Sorrow
What or who do the soldiers have to fight to protect their food?
Each other
Geese
Rats
Enemy soldiers
What is outside of the shelled schoolhouse?
Food supplies
Coffins
Munitions
Medical supplies
Chapter One opens with Paul Bäumer and the other members of the Second Company doing what?
Resting
Fighting
Falling ill
Swimming
What age are Leer, Müller, Kropp, Haie Westhus and Paul himself at the opening of the novel?
Twenty
Sixteen
Forty
Nineteen
Who in the company is in the hospital with a thigh wound?
Kemmerich
Kantorek
Joseph Behm
Katczinsky
What does Kantorek call his former pupils in his letter?
Callow youth
Iron youth
Golden youth
Steel youth
What do the men give a hospital orderly in return for more morphine for Kemmerich?
A pair of boots
Some cigarettes
A book
Ammunition and a gun
What is something that Paul did as a young student?
Steal apples
Study meteorology
Write poetry
Dream of war’s brutality
Paul thinks that after the war, the older men will forget, but what will happen to the younger men?
They will be fine
They will recover slowly
They will all die
They will have nothing
What does Paul think the humiliation and the arbitrary discipline dealt out by Corporal Himmelstoss has allowed Paul to do?
Survive
Hate others
Hate himself
Fear suffering
What does Kemmerich tell Paul to do with his boots once he is dead?
Throw them out
Give them to Müller
Take them himself
Burn them
What does Kat give one of the new recruits of Second Company?
A pair of boots
Some beans
Some cigarettes
A black eye
What does Kat believe would happen if every soldier got the same food and the same pay?
The war would end
Anarchy would break out
Communism would rule
Nothing
How do Paul and his friends remember the recruits’ barracks?
With fear
With longing
With regret
With disgust
What news does Tjaden excitedly report when he returns to the company?
Himmelstoss is dead
Himmelstoss has been captured
Himmelstoss has been wounded
Himmelstoss is coming
What did Haie, Paul, Kropp, and Tjaden do to Himmelstoss as he returned from his favourite pub?
Beat him up
Scared him
Shot him
Stole his gun
What job did the dying Kemmerich want to have after the war?
Head forester
Peat-digger
Schoolmaster
Postman
