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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Arcadian Recourses.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Death was denoted as going west, going out of it, or going under." Fussell uses these to show examples of _____.
(a) Aliteration.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Equivocation.
(d) Allusion.

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) George Sherston.
(c) Siegfried Sassoon.
(d) Laurence Binyon.

3. In "Oh What a Literary War," the literature of the time is alive with _____.
(a) Imagination.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Realism.
(d) Beauty.

4. What is the title of the second part of the trilogy?
(a) Sherston's Progress.
(b) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.
(c) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides is Fussell's example of _____.

3. What is barbed wire discussed in terms of within English pastoral literature?

4. Pastoral allusion is good in getting across what point?

5. In the third volume of the trilogy, where is Sherston?

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