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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Oh What a Literary War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the final volume of the trilogy?
(a) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.
(b) Sherston's Progress.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.

2. The eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides is Fussell's example of _____.
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Aliteration.
(d) Equivocation.

3. When soldiers wrote letters home, they were not always _____.
(a) Honest.
(b) Candid.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Respectful when writing about others.

4. What author does Fussell mention in representing the idea of crucifixion?
(a) Robert Nichol.
(b) Wilfred Owen.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Sigfried Sassoon.

5. Fussell begins by quoting a poem by whom?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Laurence Binyon.
(c) George Sherston.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of World War I, what was the British's biggest problem?

2. What is the title of the second part of the trilogy?

3. A rumor of most wars concerns _____.

4. What was the title of the poem that spoke of the symbolization for the colors for hospitalization and injury?

5. What was the difference between British commanders Haig and Plumer?

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