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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. What is the title of the second part of the trilogy?
(a) Sherston's Progress.
(b) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.

2. What are the prolonged implications from soldiers forced in the trenches for a long period of time?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Political.
(c) Social.
(d) All answers are correct.

3. In what month was the peace armistice signed for World War I?
(a) October.
(b) November.
(c) August.
(d) September.

4. The war changed the language and people tried to find terms that did what?
(a) Tried to focus on peace.
(b) Softened the effects of the realities of the war.
(c) Focused on forgiveness.
(d) No answers are correct.

5. About how far from the enemy were the first line of troops stationed in the trenches?
(a) One hundred fifty yards.
(b) Two hundred yards.
(c) Fifty yards.
(d) Two hundred fifty yards.

Short Answer Questions

1. During war time, what was censored?

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

3. Imaginations of the mind are displayed by Fussell through what type of literature?

4. What style does Fussell show as being the direst way of saying what transpired, instead of using symbols or allusion?

5. Some rumors fed many _____.

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