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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Persistence and Memory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?
(a) Edmund Blunden.
(b) Siegfried Sassoon.
(c) Wilfred Owens.
(d) Herbert Read.

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. Class distinctions applied in the military also as class determined their positions where?
(a) Service.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Rank.
(d) Battle.

4. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?
(a) Residential houses.
(b) Vegetable fields.
(c) Highways.
(d) Fruit orchards.

5. What type of bird is associated with sunset?
(a) Eagles.
(b) Robins.
(c) Larks.
(d) Nightingales.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of the poem that spoke of the symbolization for the colors for hospitalization and injury?

2. The farmers who continued to work their fields behind the lines were surrounded by what?

3. The British had failed to do what by Christmas 1915?

4. At what age did Robert Grave's enter the military?

5. Who is the author of the poem that spoke of symbolism for the colors for hospitalization and injury?

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