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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man where is the main character in autumn of 1914?
(a) Front Line.
(b) Cavalry.
(c) Reserve Line.
(d) Firing Line.

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

3. What was the difference between British commanders Haig and Plumer?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Experience.
(c) Training.
(d) Strategic planning.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When soldiers wrote letters home, they were not always _____.

4. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?

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

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