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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man where is the main character in autumn of 1914?
(a) Reserve Line.
(b) Cavalry.
(c) Front Line.
(d) Firing Line.

2. What is the title of the second part 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.

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

4. When soldiers wrote letters home, they were not always _____.
(a) Honest.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Respectful when writing about others.
(d) Candid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fussell mentions that some people thought that a certain language was not adequate enough to deal with war. Which language is it?

2. Sheep and shepherds by themselves are not pastoral. What might you add to them to make them pastoral?

3. "Death was denoted as going west, going out of it, or going under." Fussell uses these to show examples of _____.

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

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

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