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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) Pyschological.
(b) Moral.
(c) Logical.
(d) Social.

2. What did the British commander think the 1916 battle against Germany would do?
(a) Weaken British forces.
(b) Defeat German forces.
(c) Bring an end to the war.
(d) Strengthen British forces.

3. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?
(a) More than forty thousand men.
(b) More than sixty thousand men.
(c) More than seventy thousand men.
(d) More than fifty thousand men.

4. What number played prominently in the methodology of the war?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

5. According to the crucifixion story, what was the soldier crucified to?
(a) Board.
(b) Fence.
(c) Pole.
(d) Tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?

2. One store that had a gift assortment that could be sent to men at the front was _____.

3. What did men use to see out of the trenches?

4. When soldiers wrote letters home, they were not always _____.

5. At the beginning of World War I, who was the British commander?

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