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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?
(a) Disgusted.
(b) Happy.
(c) Mad.
(d) Confused.

2. What happened to some of the new language adapted from the war?
(a) Died after World War I.
(b) Still in use today.
(c) Lost with the Great Depression.
(d) Died after World War II.

3. The war began for the British in terms of language following the assassination of _____.
(a) Siegfried Sassoon.
(b) George Sherston.
(c) Archduke Ferdinand.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

4. Fussell points out that what country's soldiers exude moral superiority?
(a) Britian.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

5. In many instances for soldiers in battle, the mind imagines what to be larger than life?
(a) Victory.
(b) The enemy.
(c) Defeat.
(d) Returning home.

Short Answer Questions

1. The eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides is Fussell's example of _____.

2. Within writings, there are many comparisons of soldiers as sheep being led where?

3. What is the second part of the trilogy concerned with?

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

5. What are there many things pastoral in the literature about?

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