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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Fussell demonstrates the troops making a vocabulary that developed and they used in everyday life. What word was used to refer to passing units on the road?
(a) Bugger.
(b) Etaples.
(c) Old Jerry.
(d) Idiot Crossroads.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the rose mean to many people in England?

2. Fussell shows that some words, such as trench coat, stemmed from _____.

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

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

5. The soldiers in the trenches are subject to the commands of who?

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