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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are referred to as shepherds tending to their sheep?
(a) Generals.
(b) President.
(c) Priests.
(d) Bishops.

2. The war began for the British in terms of language following the assassination of _____.
(a) Thomas Hardy.
(b) George Sherston.
(c) Siegfried Sassoon.
(d) Archduke Ferdinand.

3. The eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides is Fussell's example of _____.
(a) Allusion.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Equivocation.
(d) Aliteration.

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

5. Where were there two movements that coincided at the time of the Great War?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) Germany.
(d) Scotland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the final volume of the trilogy?

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

3. In many instances for soldiers in battle, the mind imagines what to be larger than life?

4. What style does Fussell show as being the direst way of saying what transpired, instead of using symbols or allusion?

5. What was the purpose of the attack on Edmund Blunden at Ypres?

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