Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. In Chapter 1, the soldiers reflect on Kantorek’s description of them as the Iron Youth. What best describes the tone of their response?

A) Wistful and nostalgic

B) Sad and despondent

C) Bitter and disillusioned

D) Proud and confident

2. After Kimmerer’s death, Paul describes “the darkness and the wind as a deliverance.” Which of the following best explains this simile?

A) The natural world surrounding the soldiers is distracting.

B) Paul wants to escape from the pain and suffering of the front.

C) Paul mourns his dead friend and seeks solace in the night.

D) Kimmerer’s death has made Paul acutely aware of his own aliveness.

3. Which literary device does this quotation exemplify? “Reinforcements have arrived…they are about two years younger than us. Kropp nudges me: ‘See the infants?’”

A) Foreshadowing

B) Metaphor

C) Personification

D) Hyperbole

4. Which of these literary devices is most clearly exemplified by the following quote? “This is the front. Now we are within its embrace.”

A) Metaphor

B) Personification

C) Simile

D) Understatement

5. What does the personification of the earth in Chapter 4 reveal about its importance to a soldier?

A) It is the protector and only source of security during a bombardment.