All Quiet – Comprehension Questions

                                                                        Chapter 10

1.     Why do Paul and the others consider guarding the village a “good job” (pg. 231)?

2.     What is the macabre (gruesome, ghastly) “humor” in this section?

3.     Why does Paul feel that “the war is too desperate to be sentimental for long… we cannot afford to be anything but matter-of-fact?”

4.     Why does Paul decide not to make a sound as the doctors tend to his wounds?

5.     How does Paul arrange to stay with Albert?

6.     What does the author’s attitude toward the doctors seem to be?

7.     How is Paul embarrassed by the younger sister?

8.     Why do the soldiers yell at the sisters?

9.     What does Paul mean, “With Josef Hamacher in our midst we can now risk anything” (pg. 254)?

10. The hospital scene is almost light in tone up to a certain point.  Where does rthat change?

11. Where do horrifying details begin to accumulate?

12. How does the scene with Lewandowski and his wife provide some relief from the horror?

13. What happens to Peter?  What was the prediction?

14. Why do you suppose the author provided this outcome?  Wouldn’t have been more realistic and consistent if Peter had had the same outcome as the rest who were sent to the “Dying Room?”

15. Why is Albert so depressed?

16. Why doesn’t he commit suicide?

17. Prediction:  What will happen to the narrator when the war ends?