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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In total, about how many miles of trenches were built around an area and used around the winter of 1914?
(a) Three thousand.
(b) One thousand.
(c) Two thousand five hundred.
(d) Two thousand.

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

3. Specifically stated in the story, the troops in the trenches felt how?
(a) Officers disrespected them.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Officers didn't know what was happening on the front line.
(d) Officers didn't care about them.

4. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?
(a) Happy.
(b) Mad.
(c) Disgusted.
(d) Confused.

5. George Sherston used to carry what as a good luck piece?
(a) A pen.
(b) A feather.
(c) A chunk of fire opal.
(d) A four leaf clover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time in the morning did the day begin for the troops in the trenches?

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

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

4. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, when being sent to France, feels how?

5. The soldiers in the trenches are subject to the commands of who?

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