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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Arcadian Recourses.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fussell points out that what country's soldiers exude moral superiority?
(a) France.
(b) Britian.
(c) Germany.
(d) Scotland.

2. "Death was denoted as going west, going out of it, or going under." Fussell uses these to show examples of _____.
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Equivocation.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Aliteration.

3. Altogether, the Sassoon trilogy makes what type of point to the reader?
(a) Logical.
(b) Social.
(c) Moral.
(d) Pyschological.

4. Specifically stated in the story, the troops in the trenches felt how?
(a) Officers disrespected them.
(b) Officers didn't know what was happening on the front line.
(c) Officers didn't care about them.
(d) All answers are correct.

5. The war began for the British in terms of language following the assassination of _____.
(a) Archduke Ferdinand.
(b) George Sherston.
(c) Siegfried Sassoon.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main character in the book Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the book that Fussell uses for discussion?

2. Name an author who shows how birds are associated with sunrise and sunset?

3. Who is the author of "Exposure"?

4. When soldiers wrote letters home, they were not always _____.

5. Imaginations of the mind are displayed by Fussell through what type of literature?

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