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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During war time, what was censored?
(a) Speech.
(b) Press.
(c) Writing.
(d) Literature.

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

3. What style does Fussell show as being the direst way of saying what transpired, instead of using symbols or allusion?
(a) Unethical.
(b) Antithetical.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Ethical.

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

5. What type of bird is associated with sunset?
(a) Robins.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Larks.
(d) Nightingales.

Short Answer Questions

1. The last of the volumes of Siegfried Sassoon's works is called _____.

2. In "Exposure," where do the men dream they are?

3. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?

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

5. The use of the pastoral in literature is an example of the model-like world of what?

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