Chapter 7
1. Baumer says the men become animals at the front.  What do they become when they rest?
that they are wags and loafers.

2. What is Paul's attitude about those who die?
Paul wants to live at any cost, even out their on the battle field he knows that his fellow friends and soldiers are dying but doesnt show much emotion because he knows if he does he will start to show fear of and people dying around him might make him scared of dying.

3. Why do the men make jokes?
the lessen the tensions that are caused by being in a war

4. How does Paul feel when he first enters his home?  When he talks to his mother?
He has all different kinds of emotions at once and doesnt know what to do about it. When he talks to his mother, he feels that his mother really loves him and has been waiting for him to come home and has saved something to celebrate his arrival.

5. How do his father and mother's attitudes toward his fighting differ?
His mother is very worried about him dying and misses him a lot, while his father is very proud of him and wants him to wear his uniform to show off the his friends.

6. What does his room represent to Paul?
It represents his youth, the one he left when he went into war, the books are a reminder that he loved to read books before the war.

7. Who is Boettcher? Who was he?
He was the school porter and now a now.

8. What does Paul tell Kemmerich's mother?
Paul tells her that Kemmerich died instantaneously because he doesnt want to tell her about his suffering

9. Why is he willing to swear a lie?
Because he doesnt want he to know that he suffered a lot before his and Kemmerich wouldnt want his mom to know

10. Why does Paul regret having been on leave?
He has become emotional and doesnt want to leave all the people he loves especially his mom

Chapter 8
1. What description in this chapter proves to Paul that he is no longer indifferent, but that he is sensitive?
He has notice nature and he began to love it 

2. Are the descriptions of the Russian prisoners sympathetic or unsympathetic?
Sympathetic for the way there are treated but them thinks how would they treat him if he was a prisoner and he doesnt even know them that well

3. According to Paul, how do the Russians seem different from the Germans?
The Russian would give anything to get food but the Germans would eat their food in front of the Russians to the Russians can be jealous of them

4. According to Paul what has made these "silent figures" his enemies and what could make them his friends?
The commands had made them enemies within each other but if there werent commands they could have had been friends.