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

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

3. Fussell begins by quoting a poem by whom?
(a) Laurence Binyon.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) George Sherston.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

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

5. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, in what year was George Sherson's best friend shot at the front?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1910.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. During this time, what was considered the main form of entertainment?

5. In "Oh What a Literary War," the literature of the time is alive with _____.

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