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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second part of the trilogy concerned with?
(a) Love of war.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Casualty of war.
(d) Irony of war.

2. "Death was denoted as going west, going out of it, or going under." Fussell uses these to show examples of _____.
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Equivocation.
(c) Aliteration.
(d) Allusion.

3. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, in what year was George Sherson's best friend shot at the front?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1915.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During this time, what was considered the main form of entertainment?

2. Pilgrim's Progress is mentioned quite a bit with its references and allusions to _____.

3. Fussell demonstrates the use of pet names for cities and places. What word was used to refer to eat-apples?

4. Altogether, the Sassoon trilogy makes what type of point to the reader?

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

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