All Quiet – Comprehension Questions

 

                                                              Chapter 8

 

 

 

1.     How does Paul spend his time at the training camp?

 

 

 

 

2.     How does Paul feel when he sees the enemy – Russian soliders – up close?

 

 

 

 

3.     Looking to the future, how does Paul plan to live again “after this annhilation of all human feeling” (pg. 194)?

 

 

 

 

4.     Why do you think the author includes details about Paul’s mother’s illness?  (i.e. What comment is being made about inequities in the German health care system?)

 

 

 

 

5.     How does Paul feel about being reunited with what is left of his company?

 

 

 

 

6.     Why does he eat the moldy potato cakes?