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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Adversary Proceedings.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Fussell, modern war requires an accompanying ______.
(a) Language.
(b) Peace.
(c) Literature.
(d) Innocence.

3. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, when being sent to France, feels how?
(a) Cheerful.
(b) Sad.
(c) Angry.
(d) Confused.

4. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?
(a) More than seventy thousand men.
(b) More than fifty thousand men.
(c) More than forty thousand men.
(d) More than sixty thousand men.

5. At the beginning of World War I, what was the British's biggest problem?
(a) They were not prepared.
(b) They were ill.
(c) They were badly injured.
(d) They lost their military leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main character in the book Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the book that Fussell uses for discussion?

2. At the 1916 Haig disaster, what equipment was introduced as a weapon?

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

4. In total, about how many miles of trenches were built around an area and used around the winter of 1914?

5. What was the difference between British commanders Haig and Plumer?

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