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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Troglodyte World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?
(a) The most ironic and the most humorous.
(b) The most hideous and the most humorous.
(c) The most hideous and the most outrageous.
(d) The most hideous and the most ironic.

2. What are some different types of trenches called?
(a) Firing trenches.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Saps
(d) Communication trenches.

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

4. In total, about how many miles of trenches were built around an area and used around the winter of 1914?
(a) Two thousand.
(b) One thousand.
(c) Two thousand five hundred.
(d) Three thousand.

5. What services continued during the war to make the soldiers feel very close to home?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Magazine subscriptions.
(c) Newspaper delivery.
(d) Mail service.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the British commander, what was obvious to him throughout the first part of the war?

2. Most of the author's reference of sunrise and sunset are gone by what?

3. Fussell quotes Hardy, "Irony is the attendant of hope, and the fuel of hope is _______"

4. About how far from the enemy were the first line of troops stationed in the trenches?

5. Within the trenches, how many lines of troops were stationed there in war time?

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