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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fussell quotes Hardy, "Irony is the attendant of hope, and the fuel of hope is _______"
(a) Literature.
(b) Peace.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Language.

2. Where did this battle the British commander was preparing for against the Germans take place?
(a) Somme.
(b) Britian.
(c) Atlantic.
(d) Germany.

3. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?
(a) The most hideous and the most humorous.
(b) The most ironic and the most humorous.
(c) The most hideous and the most ironic.
(d) The most hideous and the most outrageous.

4. What country's submarines were active in the Atlantic and ultimately brought America into World War I?
(a) Germany.
(b) Britian.
(c) Scotland.
(d) France.

5. Altogether, the Sassoon trilogy makes what type of point to the reader?
(a) Moral.
(b) Social.
(c) Pyschological.
(d) Logical.

Short Answer Questions

1. The British had failed to do what by Christmas 1915?

2. Who does Fussell refer to as the master of spiritual irony?

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

4. The writer George Sherston uses the sky to describe _____.

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

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