All Quiet on the Western Front Vocabulary

Question 1

showing a lack of experience, wisdom or judgment

Answer 1

naive

Question 2

a brown soil like material of boggy, acid ground, consisting of partly decomposed vegetable matter

Answer 2

peat

Question 3

a list of data items, commands: a live or squence of people awaiting their turn to be attended to or proceed

Answer 3

queue

Question 4

to exclude from a society or group

Answer 4

ostracized

Question 5

a place, usually a civilian’s house or other non military facility where soldiers are lodged temporarily

Answer 5

billets

Question 6

the complete range or scope of something

Answer 6

gamut

Question 7

disconcertion; confusion; embarrassment; anxious embarrasment

Answer 7

discomfiture

Question 8

angry or dissatisfied

Answer 8

disgruntled

Question 9

persisting tirelessly

Answer 9

indefatigable

Question 10

having an irritatingly strong and unpleasant taste or smell

Answer 10

acrid

Question 11

too long; slow, dull; tiresome or monotonous

Answer 11

tedious

Question 12

dreamily or wistfully thoughtful

Answer 12

pensiveness

Question 13

a thing said or done for amusement; joke

Answer 13

jest

Question 14

without suffering any injury, damage or harm

Answer 14

unscathed

Question 15

fearing apprehensive; a feeling that something bad will happen

Answer 15

foreboding

Question 16

have an effect or impact, especially a negative one

Answer 16

impinges

Question 17

start to lose strength or momentum

Answer 17

faltering

Question 18

unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke

Answer 18

apoplexy

Question 19

showing warmth and friendliness

Answer 19

affably

Question 20

the remnants of a liquid left in a container, together with any sediment or grounds

Answer 20

dregs

Question 21

annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand

Answer 21

obtuse

Question 22

ardently active, devoted, or diligent; full of

Answer 22

zealously

Question 23

very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail

Answer 23

fastidious

Question 24

very severe or serious; causing grief or great sorrow:

Answer 24

grievious

Question 25

a departure from what is normal, usual, unexpected, typically on that is unwelcome

Answer 25

aberration

Question 26

A young German soldier fighting in the trenches during World War I. He is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. He is, at heart, a kind, compassionate, and sensitive young man, but the brutal experience of warfare teaches him to detach himself from his feelings. His account of the war is a bitter invective against sentimental, romantic ideals of warfare.

Answer 26

Paul Bäumer

Question 27

A soldier belonging to Paul’s company and Paul’s best friend in the army. he is forty years old at the beginning of the novel and has a family at home. He is a resourceful, inventive man and always finds food, clothing, and blankets whenever he and his friends need them.

Answer 27

Stanislaus Katczinsky

Question 28

One of Paul’s classmates who serves with Paul in the Second Company. An intelligent, speculative young man, he is one of Paul’s closest friends during the war. His interest in analyzing the causes of the war leads to many of the most critical antiwar sentiments in the novel.

Answer 28

Albert Kropp

Question 29

One of Paul’s classmates. he is a hardheaded, practical young man, and he plies his friends in the Second Company with questions about their postwar plans.

Answer 29

Müller

Question 30

One of Paul’s friends in the Second Company. he is a wiry young man with a voracious appetite. He bears a deep grudge against Corporal Himmelstoss.

Answer 30

Tjaden

Question 31

A pompous, ignorant, authoritarian schoolmaster in Paul’s high school during the years before the war. he places intense pressure on Paul and his classmates to fulfill their “patriotic duty” by enlisting in the army.

Answer 31

Kantorek

Question 32

A noncommissioned training officer. Before the war, he was a postman. He is a petty, power-hungry little man who torments Paul and his friends during their training. After he experiences the horrors of trench warfare, however, he tries to make amends with them.

Answer 32

Corporal Himmelstoss

Question 33

One of Paul’s classmates and comrades in the war. After suffering a light wound, he contracts gangrene, and his leg has to be amputated. His death, in Chapter Two, marks the reader’s first encounter with the meaninglessness of death and the cheapness of life in the war.

Answer 33

Franz Kemmerich

Question 34

The first of Paul’s classmates to die in the war. he did not want to enlist, but he caved under the pressure of the schoolmaster, Kantorek. His ugly, painful death shatters his classmates’ trust in the authorities who convinced them to take part in the war.

Answer 34

Joseph Behm

Question 35

One of Paul’s close friends in the Second Company. he is a young man with a wife and a farm at home; he is constantly homesick for his farm and family.

Answer 35

Detering

Question 36

A French soldier whom Paul kills in No Man’s Land. he is a printer with a wife and child at home. He is the first person that Paul kills in hand-to-hand combat, one of Paul’s most traumatic experiences in the war.

Answer 36

Gérard Duval

Question 37

One of Paul’s classmates and close friends during the war. he serves with Paul in the Second Company. He was the first in Paul’s class to lose his virginity.

Answer 37

Leer

Question 38

One of Paul’s friends in the Second Company. A gigantic, burly man, he was a peat-digger before the war. He plans to serve a full term in the army after the war ends, since he finds peat-digging so unpleasant.

Answer 38

Haie Westhus

Question 39

A soldier in a neighboring unit. he is a bed wetter like Tjaden.

Answer 39

Kindervater

Question 40

A patient in the Catholic hospital where Paul and Kropp recuperate from their wounds. he desperately wants to have sex with his visiting wife but is confined to bed because of a minor fever.

Answer 40

Lewandowski

Question 41

One of Paul’s classmates. he becomes a training officer and enjoys tormenting Kantorek when Kantorek is conscripted as a soldier.

Answer 41

Mittelstaedt