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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Myth, Ritual, and Romance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?
(a) Mad.
(b) Happy.
(c) Confused.
(d) Disgusted.

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

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

4. At the beginning of World War I, who was the British commander?
(a) George Sherston.
(b) Sir Douglas Haig.
(c) Thomas Hardy.
(d) General Sir George Plumer.

5. George Sherston used to carry what as a good luck piece?
(a) A pen.
(b) A feather.
(c) A four leaf clover.
(d) A chunk of fire opal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Specifically stated in the story, the troops in the trenches felt how?

2. One store that had a gift assortment that could be sent to men at the front was _____.

3. What trench was the shallowest and used to advance a position?

4. The last of the volumes of Siegfried Sassoon's works is called _____.

5. When soldiers wrote letters home, they were not always _____.

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