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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?
(a) More than seventy thousand men.
(b) More than fifty thousand men.
(c) More than sixty thousand men.
(d) More than forty thousand men.

2. Fussell quotes Hardy, "Irony is the attendant of hope, and the fuel of hope is _______"
(a) Literature.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Peace.
(d) Language.

3. What did George Sherston refer to his good luck piece as?
(a) Pocket sunrise.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Pocket sunset.
(d) Pocket dawn.

4. What time in the morning did the day begin for the troops in the trenches?
(a) Three thirty.
(b) Five thirty.
(c) Four oclock.
(d) Four thirty.

5. What was the difference between British commanders Haig and Plumer?
(a) Experience.
(b) Training.
(c) Strategic planning.
(d) Imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. By mid-December 1914, British troops had been fighting on the Continent for how long?

2. How were the German trenches in contrast to the British trenches?

3. In what month was the peace armistice signed for World War I?

4. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?

5. What are some different types of trenches called?

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