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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Fussell, personalities change as people are exposed to _____.
(a) Weapons.
(b) Rumors.
(c) Drugs.
(d) War.

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

3. Some rumors fed many _____.
(a) Poems.
(b) Lies.
(c) Short stories.
(d) Folktails.

4. What trench type was four to six feet wide and six to eight feet deep?
(a) Sap.
(b) Communication trench.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Firing trench.

5. What does the soldier seek as a way of countering loneliness and terror in the battle field?
(a) Communication.
(b) Affection.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some German trenches included what special features?

2. What time in the morning did the day begin for the troops in the trenches?

3. What are the prolonged implications from soldiers forced in the trenches for a long period of time?

4. What did the rose mean to many people in England?

5. In most war literature, men portrayed as homosexual were also what?

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