The document contains comprehension and analysis questions about All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. It asks the reader to summarize key events and analyze themes and characters from each chapter. Some questions ask about how characters relate to one another and how they change over time in response to the horrors of war. Other questions ask the reader to make connections between events in the novel and their own experiences watching movies or television shows.

1. Think and Discuss Questions
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CHAPTERS 1-3
Understanding
1. What is the setting of the opening of the novel and how does
the narrator describe
the feelings of the men there?
2. Why do the men receive double rations when they return from
the front lines?
3. As Franz Kemmerich lies dying in the hospital, which of his
personal effects
become objects of concern?
4. How were “accounts squared” with Himmelstoss the evening
before the men
came to the front?
Analyzing
5. In his second visit to see Kemmerich in the hospital what
does Paul attempt to do
for his comrade and friend?

2. 6. Describe Kat’s outstanding abilities.
7. Why do Paul and other former students remember their
schoolmaster, Kantorek,
with such bitterness?
Extending
8. In your opinion, what enables men to hold themselves
together in the face of the
crushing hardships of army life and war?
CHAPTER 4-6
Understanding
1. What duty is given to Paul and his comrades at the beginning
of chapter 4?
2. What, supposedly, do the men become when they reach the
front?
3. During the bombardment at the cemetery how do Paul and his
comrades protect
themselves?
Analyzing
4. The episode of the wounded horses is described in
compelling detail. How does
the author use irony to increase the impact of this scene?

3. 5. Describe the mood of the scene in which Paul and Kat roast,
eat, and then share
their goose.
6. Chapters 4-6 are filled with the violence of bombardment,
attack, and counterattack. What results are achieved? What
does this suggest about the war?
Extending
7. What aspect of the depiction of battle in chapters 4-6 had the
greatest impact for
you? Why?
CHAPTERS 7-9
Understanding
1. How has the relationship between Himmelstoss and the other
men changed by
chapter 7?2. In what condition is Paul’s mother when he is
reunited with her on his leave?
3. How does Paul explain Franz’s death to Mrs. Kemmerich?
4. What does Paul promise to the man he kills, Gerard Duval?
Analyzing
5. In chapter 7 how does Paul relate to his old room and
belongings, and what does

4. this mean to him?
6. Characterize the quality of Paul’s communication with his
family as well as the
other civilians he talks to while on leave.
7. Why is Paul “frightened” by his thoughts about the Russian
prisoners he guards?
8. What connections can you find between the episode with the
prisoners and Paul’s
later encounter with Gerard Duval?
Extending
9. What might have happened to Paul if he had pursued the
effort to know the
human identity of those he was pledged to kill, as he had with
Gerard Duval?
CHAPTERS 10-12
Understanding
1. What job are the men assigned to at the beginning of chapter
10?
2. Why does Paul assume the French will not bomb the town
that he is helping
evacuate and in which he gets wounded?
3. In chapter 11, what does Detering attempt to do and what is

5. the result?
4. What becomes of the boots inherited from Kemmerich?
Analyzing
5. What is the mood of the description of the pig roast and its
aftermath?
6. How do Paul and the other patients demonstrate comradeship
while in the
hospital?
7. With the loss of Kat, what must Paul face?
8. What does it mean for Paul to say that, “…it will seek its
own way out, heedless
of the will that is within me” (chapter 12, last paragraph).
Extending
9. Paul dies on a day that is “all quit on the Western Front.”
Find at least three
levels of meaning for the term “quiet” in this context.
10. In your judgment, is Paul’s death necessary to the
conclusion of the novel? How
would the ending be seriously altered if the final two
paragraphs were omitted?
Thinking About The Chapters:

6. Chapter 1:
Recalling:
1. In what way did the school master Kantorek contribute to the
death of Joseph
Behm?
2. Which of Paul’s comrades were his classmates before the
war?Interpreting:
3. How does Katczinsky differ from the other men in his
dealings with Ginger the
cook?
4. What good has come of the heavy casualties referred to at the
beginning of the
chapter?
Applying:
5. Do you know a character in a book you have read or a film
you have seen who did
something unpleasant to avoid being called a coward? Discuss.
Chapter 2:
Recalling:
1. What evidence do we have that Paul is interested in writing?
2. How does Paul react to the death of Kemerich?

7. Interpreting:
3. How were Paul and his classmates changed by their army
training?
4. Why does Himmelstoss especially dislike Paul and his
friends?
Applying:
5. Have you ever seen a TV show or film about a bully? How
did this experience
compare to Paul and his friends? How did the film character
resolve the problem?
Chapters 3 and 4:
Recalling:
1. How does Kropp propose to end the war?
2. How does Kat explain Himmelstoss’s bullying?
Interpreting:
3. What does Paul mean when he says, “To no man does the
earth mean so much as
to the soldier”?
4. Why is Detering so upset by the suffering of the horses?
Applying:5. Describe a difficult decision you have observed a
character make in a film or TV

8. show make. Was the decision especially difficult because of the
effect it might
have had on someone else?
Chapters 5, 6, and 7:
Recalling:
1. How does Paul’s response to the books in his room differ
from his response to
them before the war?
2. How do Paul’s perceptions of the war differ from those of the
German-Master and
his companions?
Interpreting:
3. Why do Paul’s memories awaken sorrow rather than desire?
4. Why does Paul say the soldiers would have despised
themselves a few years ago
for being so easily contented with food and rest?
Applying:
5. Describe the circumstances in a film or book you are familiar
with in which a
frightening or unpleasant situation made a character feel close
to a friend.

9. Chapters 8, 9, and 10:
Recalling:
1. What sort of trade goes on between the Russian prisoners and
the local peasants?
2. How does Paul help Albert when the two men are wounded?
Interpreting:
3. How does Kropp differ from the others when the men discuss
the causes of war?
4. What does Paul mean when he says that “a hospital alone
shows what war is”?
Applying:
5. Have you ever observed a character in a film or book who
was separated from a
close friend? How did he or she handle the situation?
Chapters 11 and 12:
Recalling:1. What is Kat’s argument for eating lightly during an
enemy attack?
2. Why does Paul think the Germans are losing the war?
Interpreting:
3. Explain Paul’s comparison between the soldiers and the
Bushmen.

10. 4. Why does Kat groan “at last—just at last” when he is
wounded?
Applying:
5. Have you ever seen a movie or TV show in which a character
helped a friend to
overcome a major crisis? Explain how the character helped and
discuss the effect
it had on the friendship.