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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year was the last of Siegfried Sassoon's volumes published?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1955.

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

3. The soldiers in the trenches are subject to the commands of who?
(a) Officers on the front line.
(b) Officers in the rear.
(c) No one.
(d) All answers are incorrect.

4. Fussell mentions that some people thought that a certain language was not adequate enough to deal with war. Which language is it?
(a) Spanish.
(b) German.
(c) English.
(d) French.

5. The use of the pastoral in literature is an example of the model-like world of what?
(a) German writing.
(b) French writing.
(c) English writing.
(d) Scotish writing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, when being sent to France, feels how?

3. What type of bird is associated with sunset?

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

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

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