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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Soldier Boys.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the third volume of the trilogy, where is Sherston?
(a) Hospital.
(b) Psychiatric hospital.
(c) A London pub.
(d) Front line of the trenches.

2. Who is the author of the story "How Young They Died;" referred to in The Great War and Modern Memory?
(a) Stuart Cloete.
(b) Siegfried Sassoon.
(c) Laurence Binyon.
(d) George Sherston.

3. What was the title of the poem that spoke of the symbolization for the colors for hospitalization and injury?
(a) Tricolor.
(b) Trauma.
(c) E.R.
(d) Injured.

4. What style does Fussell show as being the direst way of saying what transpired, instead of using symbols or allusion?
(a) Unethical.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Antithetical.
(d) Ethical.

5. Where was the pre-war class system the most pronounced?
(a) United States.
(b) Britain.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fussell shares a story of a soldier who was said to be crucified. What country is this soldier from?

2. A rumor was that Germany had someone in the trenches prior to wartime. Who was it?

3. At the beginning of World War I, who was the British commander?

4. At the 1916 Haig disaster, what equipment was introduced as a weapon?

5. What is the second part of the trilogy concerned with?

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