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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many men lost their lives in World War I?
(a) Nine million.
(b) Eight and a half million.
(c) Ten million.
(d) Eight million.

3. Who does Fussell refer to as the master of spiritual irony?
(a) Thomas Hardy.
(b) General Sir George Plumer.
(c) Sir Douglas Haig.
(d) George Sherston.

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 fifty thousand men.
(c) More than forty thousand men.
(d) More than seventy thousand men.

5. What did men use to see out of the trenches?
(a) Binoculars.
(b) Their eyes.
(c) Periscopes.
(d) Telescope.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What month and year did America enter World War I?

3. What did George Sherston refer to his good luck piece as?

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

5. Siegfried Sassoon's last volume deals with what American history time span?

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