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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color are the Germans usually described in by soldiers who spent long periods of time in the trenches?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) Brown.
(d) Grey.

2. Fussell demonstrates the use of pet names for cities and places. What word was used to refer to eat-apples?
(a) Bugger.
(b) Old Jerry.
(c) Etaples.
(d) Idiot Crossroads.

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

4. In "Exposure," where do the men dream they are?
(a) Grassier ditches.
(b) With family.
(c) Flower garden.
(d) Home.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?

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

4. What type of bird is associated with dawn?

5. Imaginations of the mind are displayed by Fussell through what type of literature?

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