These are questions for the first chapter of All Quiet on the Western Front. 1. From what point of view is the novel told? Why would the author choose this point of view?

2. What does the first line of the novel establish?

3. What happens after the men have spent thirteen days at the front?

4. What is the author’s MAIN purpose for including the character sketches on page three?

5. What are the three important qualities possessed by Katczinsky?

6. How does the author advance the plot in pages 1-4?

7. How does the food conflict get resolved?

8. What is the effect of the statement “Won’t you join up, Comrades?”

9. How would you describe Joseph Behm?

10. What lines on pgs. 6&7 could be used to illustrate the following themes?
A. horrors of war

B. loss of innocence

C. questioning of authority

D. comradeship/friendship

11. Where is Kemmerich?

12. What do Kemmerich’s friends do to help him? Why does Kropp go in with the orderly?

13. What literary term could be applied to Kantorek referring to them as “Iron Youth”? Why?

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Read the passage from chapter 17 of the prince. and of all princes, it is impossible for the new prince to avoid the imputation of cruelty, owing to new states being full of dangers. hence virgil, through the mouth of dido, excuses the inhumanity of her reign owing to its being new, saying: "res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt moliri, et late fines custode tueri."(*) nevertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable. . against my will, my fate a throne unsettled, and an infant state, bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, and guard with these severities my shores. what reasoning does machiavelli use in this passage? machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by first introducing the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with evidence. machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by starting with statistical evidence and then concluding that rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by first presenting an observed pattern of details and then concluding that new rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by starting with the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with short narratives.