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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The writer George Sherston uses the sky to describe _____.
(a) Various relationships.
(b) Peace time.
(c) Beauty.
(d) War time.

2. According to the crucifixion story, what held this soldiers hands and feet so that this soldier was crucified?
(a) Sticks.
(b) Bayonets.
(c) Rifles.
(d) Spikes.

3. According to Fussell, what has been affected by time and war?
(a) Innocence.
(b) Peace.
(c) Literature.
(d) Language.

4. About how far from the enemy were the first line of troops stationed in the trenches?
(a) Fifty yards.
(b) Two hundred fifty yards.
(c) Two hundred yards.
(d) One hundred fifty yards.

5. Altogether, the Sassoon trilogy makes what type of point to the reader?
(a) Social.
(b) Pyschological.
(c) Moral.
(d) Logical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What services continued during the war to make the soldiers feel very close to home?

2. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, in what year was George Sherson's best friend shot at the front?

3. Who is the main character in the book Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the book that Fussell uses for discussion?

4. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man where is the main character in autumn of 1914?

5. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the story of the Crucified Canadian?

2. What is meant by the statement that the Great War is the most hideous and the most ironic?

3. How did various authors bring in the topic of the sunrise and sunset in reference to the war?

4. What was the British's army biggest problem?

5. Rumors of most wars concern deserters. What do these rumors say?

6. What has happened to the area by the Somme River where a fierce battle in the war took place?

7. What happened to the trenches when the wars ended?

8. Fussell uses and quotes Thomas Hardy. Fussell begins by quoting a Thomas Hardy poem. Why does Fussell quote Hardy about the war?

9. What was the paradox for many soldiers fighting in World War II?

10. What was the difference between British commanders General Sir George Plumer and Sir Douglas Haig?

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