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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Name an author who shows how birds are associated with sunrise and sunset?
(a) Sassoon.
(b) Blunden.
(c) Owen.
(d) Burgess.

2. What are there many things pastoral in the literature about?
(a) Authors.
(b) Illustrators.
(c) War.
(d) Church.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of the final volume of the trilogy?

3. Specifically stated in the story, the troops in the trenches felt how?

4. Pastoral allusion is good in getting across what point?

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

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