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

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

3. What was the last line of the trenches referred to as?
(a) Last line.
(b) Front line.
(c) Reserve line.
(d) Support line.

4. When soldiers wrote letters home, they were not always _____.
(a) Respectful when writing about others.
(b) Honest.
(c) Candid.
(d) All answers are correct.

5. Who is the main character in the book Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the book that Fussell uses for discussion?
(a) Siegfried Sassoon.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) George Sherston.
(d) Stuart Cloete.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long in 1916 did the British commander prepare his troops for the battle against the Germans?

2. Fussell quotes Hardy, "Irony is the attendant of hope, and the fuel of hope is _______"

3. By the end of 1917, Germany had shifted their troops in what direction?

4. According to Fussell, modern war requires an accompanying ______.

5. Some rumors fed many _____.

(see the answer key)

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