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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. Fussell mentions that an author writes about the German person in the trenches prior to wartime. Who is it?
(a) Henry Williams.
(b) Siegfried Sassoon.
(c) George Coppard.
(d) George Sherston.

2. According to this crucifixion story, who stood around until this soldier died?
(a) Canadians.
(b) French.
(c) Germans.
(d) British.

3. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man where is the main character in autumn of 1914?
(a) Front Line.
(b) Reserve Line.
(c) Cavalry.
(d) Firing Line.

4. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?
(a) Vegetable fields.
(b) Highways.
(c) Residential houses.
(d) Fruit orchards.

5. What colors came to symbolize injury and hospitalization?
(a) Yellow, red, and green.
(b) Red, white, and green.
(c) Yellow, red, and blue.
(d) Red, white, and blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within the trenches, how many lines of troops were stationed there in war time?

2. The farmers who continued to work their fields behind the lines were surrounded by what?

3. What was the last line of the trenches referred to as?

4. Fussell begins by quoting a poem by whom?

5. What is the title of the final volume of the trilogy?

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