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

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

3. The farmers who continued to work their fields behind the lines were surrounded by what?
(a) Rumors.
(b) Guards.
(c) Troops.
(d) Fences.

4. What did George Sherston refer to his good luck piece as?
(a) Pocket dawn.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Pocket sunset.
(d) Pocket sunrise.

5. "Death was denoted as going west, going out of it, or going under." Fussell uses these to show examples of _____.
(a) Equivocation.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Aliteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fussell makes reference that some people thought the direction the farmers were plowing was an indication of _____.

2. What country's submarines were active in the Atlantic and ultimately brought America into World War I?

3. In the third volume of the trilogy, where is Sherston?

4. What is the title of the second part of the trilogy?

5. Over a period of time, the soldiers became polarized in their _____.

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