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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are referred to as shepherds tending to their sheep?
(a) Generals.
(b) Priests.
(c) Bishops.
(d) President.

2. What was the purpose of the attack on Edmund Blunden at Ypres?
(a) Haunt him.
(b) Injure him.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Frighten him away.

3. When was the final volume of the trilogy written?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Great Depression.
(c) Civil War.
(d) World War II.

4. What does the speaker at an elegy become aware of?
(a) His own sensitivity.
(b) His own empathy.
(c) His own mortality.
(d) His own creativity.

5. Over a period of time, the soldiers became polarized in their _____.
(a) Way of life.
(b) Spending money.
(c) Communication.
(d) Thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. In many instances for soldiers in battle, the mind imagines what to be larger than life?

2. Where were there two movements that coincided at the time of the Great War?

3. Fussell points out that what country's soldiers exude moral superiority?

4. In "Oh What a Literary War," the literature of the time is alive with _____.

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

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