SparkNotes: All Quiet on the Western Front: Quiz

1. Who is the first of Paul’s classmates to die during the war?

(A) Joseph Behm

(B) Kropp

(C) Müller

(D) Kemmerich

2. Whose boots does Müller want?

(A) Kropp’s

(B) Paul’s

(C) Kemmerich’s

(D) Tjaden’s

3. Which character has a knack for finding food?

(A) Kropp

(B) Kat

(C) Paul

(D) Tjaden

4. For what medical condition that plagues Tjaden does Himmelstoss devise a humiliating cure?

(A) Bad breath

(B) Gas

(C) A hernia

(D) Bed-wetting

5. From what illness does Paul’s mother suffer?

(A) Cancer

(B) Tuberculosis

(C) German measles

(D) Trench foot

6. What did Kantorek encourage his students to do about the war?

(A) Avoid it at all costs

(B) Fight if conscripted; otherwise live at peace

(C) Emigrate to America

(D) Patriotically enlist at once

7. With what friend is Paul hospitalized?

(A) Kemmerich

(B) Kropp

(C) Kat

(D) Tjaden

8. How long before the Armistice does Paul die?

(A) A year or more

(B) Six months

(C) Four months

(D) One month

9. Who dies as Paul carries him to safety?

(A) Kat

(B) Kropp

(C) Müller

(D) Haie Westhus

10. What prompts Detering to desert?

(A) A letter from his wife

(B) The loss of an arm

(C) The sight of cherry trees

(D) The scent of the ocean

11. What nationality are the prisoners whom Paul befriends?

(A) American

(B) Russian

(C) English

(D) French

12. What nationality is the soldier whom Paul stabs to death?

(A) American

(B) Russian

(C) English

(D) French

13. Where does Paul choose to spend his leave?

(A) At home with his family

(B) On the Italian coast

(C) In Berlin

(D) In Paris

14. According to Kat, what would happen if the enlisted men and the officers were all given the same pay?

(A) The army would be far more successful

(B) The enlisted men would end up giving orders

(C) The war would end immediately

(D) The war would never end

15. According to Kropp, how should disagreements between nations be resolved?

(A) By drawing lots

(B) The leaders should fight it out with clubs

(C) The leaders should lock themselves in a room until they agree

(D) By fighting wars

16. Who kills the goose?

(A) Paul

(B) Kropp

(C) Tjaden

(D) Kat

17. Which character most loathes Himmelstoss?

(A) Paul

(B) Tjaden

(C) Kat

(D) Müller

18. Which character is the last to die?

(A) Müller

(B) Kat

(C) Paul

(D) Kemmerich

19. What happens when half the company is killed at the beginning of the novel?

(A) The survivors receive double rations and enjoy a large meal

(B) The survivors are emotionally devastated

(C) The survivors are chastised by the general for letting their comrades die

(D) The survivors steal the dead men’s clothes

20. What inventions made World War I so different from previous wars?

(A) The hot-air balloon and the cannon

(B) The airplane, the machine gun, and the hydrogen bomb

(C) The machine gun, the hydrogen bomb, and the grenade

(D) The airplane, the machine gun, the grenade, and poison gas

21. In what year was the novel first published in English?

(A) 1919

(B) 1923

(D) 1929

22. What is the term for the long ditches from which the armies attack one another?

(A) Barricades

(B) Trenches

(C) Furrows

(D) Shell slides

23. What nationality is the girl with whom Paul sleeps?

(A) American

(B) Russian

(C) French

(D) German

24. What does the army report say on the day Paul is killed?

(A) “All quiet on the Western Front”

(B) “Brave soldier fallen”

(C) “19,239 dead”

(D) Nothing; the war officially ends just before Paul is killed

25. What is Kropp’s first name?

(A) Paul

(B) Rainer

(C) Thorsten

(D) Albert