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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?
(a) Confused.
(b) Disgusted.
(c) Happy.
(d) Mad.

2. In "Exposure," where are the men freezing?
(a) Forest.
(b) Homes.
(c) Trenches.
(d) Barracks.

3. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, when being sent to France, feels how?
(a) Angry.
(b) Sad.
(c) Cheerful.
(d) Confused.

4. During this time, what was considered the main form of entertainment?
(a) Literature and the arts.
(b) Sports.
(c) Classical music.
(d) All answers are correct.

5. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?
(a) Wilfred Owens.
(b) Edmund Blunden.
(c) Herbert Read.
(d) Siegfried Sassoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within writings, there are many comparisons of soldiers as sheep being led where?

2. Name an author who shows how birds are associated with sunrise and sunset?

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

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

5. In actuality, what was an eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides?

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