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ThunderTom has Authored 10 Questions  | A. Tjaden B. Westhus C. Kropp D. Kat Himmelstoss is a power-hungry corporal with special contempt for Paul and his friends, taking sadistic pleasure in punishing the minor infractions of his trainees during their basic training in preparation for their deployment. He often teases Tjaden and Kindervater about their bed-wetting and make them sleep under one another. |
| A. A conjugal visit. B. A birthday party. C. For him to go home. D. To assist him commit suicide. Johann Lewandowski is a Polish soldier and the oldest patient in the hospital who has suffered a serious abdominal wound. Thrilled with a letter from his wife, Marja, he longs to see her and the child who was born during his two-year absence. Propped on a pillow after Marja arrives, Johann and his wife make love while the men play skat; two other men watch for intruders and Albert tends the baby. |
| A. As Paul carries him back to the camp. B. When a truce is declared and the war is over. C. After a gas attack. D. As he and Paul are talking. Kat is shot in the leg at the end of the story, just before Bäumer himself is killed. Bäumer carries him back to camp on his back, only to discover upon their arrival that a shell fragment had hit Kat in the head and killed him on the way. He is thus the last of Paul's close friends to die in battle. It is Kat's death that eventually makes Bäumer careless whether he survives the war or not. |
| A. Shell shock caused by being bombarded too many times. B. He discovers his wife has died. C. His leg is amputated. D. He contracts syphilis. Kropp is wounded towards the end of the novel and undergoes an amputation. Both he and Bäumer end up spending time in a Roman Catholic hospital together, Bäumer suffering from shrapnel wounds to the leg and arm. Though Kropp initially plans to commit suicide if he requires an amputation, the book suggests he eventually decides against it. |
| A. Printer. B. Politician. C. Student. D. Baker. After killing Duval Paul learns more about him by rummaging through his wallet, locating letters and pictures of his family, and learning that he worked as a typesetter. Paul regrets the death, noting “the dead man might have had thirty more years of life if only I had impressed the way back to our trench more sharply on my memory.” The crazed monologue continues, with Paul vowing to write to Duval’s wife, begging forgiveness, and seeking an illogical atonement by promising to become a printer. |
| A. Cancer. B. Influenza. C. Diabetes. D. Pneumonia. While at home on leave Paul discovers his mother has cancer. |
| A. Polish B. French C. Canadian D. Russian The prisoners are Russian. |
| A. His helmet B. His bible C. His boots D. His pistol Kemmerich had enlisted in the army for WWI along with his best friend and classmate, Bäumer. Kemmerich is shot in the leg early in the story; his injured leg had to be amputated, and he dies shortly thereafter. In anticipation of Kemmerich's imminent death, Müller was eager to get his boots. While in hospital, the doctors took Kemmerich's watch from him, causing him great distress, prompting him to ask about his watch every time his friends came to visit him in the hospital. The boots pass throughout his friends which represents the motif of death. |
| A. Stanislaus Katczinski B. Albert Kropp C. Tjaden D. Haie Westhus Also known as Kat, he has the most positive influence on Paul and his comrades on the battlefield. Katczinsky was a cobbler in civilian life; he is older than Paul Bäumer and his comrades, and serves as their leadership figure. He also represents a literary model highlighting the differences between the younger and older soldiers. |
| A. Müller B. Tjaden C. Paul Bäumer D. Albert Kropp Paul Bäumer is the narrator, and the main character of the novel, whom Remarque uses to represent his own experience in World War I. Aged only 19, Bäumer, who is an amateur writer of several poems and a play, is persuaded by his schoolmaster, Kantorek, to enlist in the German Army for World War I. He is deployed to the western front, where he experiences the devastating physical and psychological effects of intense combat, including the horrific wounding or death of his comrades and close friends. Bäumer reflects on the war as he witnesses the dehumanizing conditions of combat and the robbing of soldiers of their individuality and love of life. |
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