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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Oh What a Literary War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Altogether, the Sassoon trilogy makes what type of point to the reader?
(a) Moral.
(b) Pyschological.
(c) Social.
(d) Logical.

2. In his writing, Hardy captures the fact he could hear _____ across the Channel?
(a) Bombs.
(b) Explosions.
(c) Airplanes.
(d) Gunfire.

3. In "Oh What a Literary War," the literature of the time is alive with _____.
(a) Realism.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Allusion.

4. Specifically stated in the story, the troops in the trenches felt how?
(a) Officers disrespected them.
(b) Officers didn't care about them.
(c) Officers didn't know what was happening on the front line.
(d) All answers are correct.

5. According to Fussell, personalities change as people are exposed to _____.
(a) Rumors.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Drugs.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the British commander think the 1916 battle against Germany would do?

2. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?

3. During World War II, where did many soldiers fight from?

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

5. What happened to some of the new language adapted from the war?

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