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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Soldier Boys.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of the story "How Young They Died;" referred to in The Great War and Modern Memory?
(a) Siegfried Sassoon.
(b) Laurence Binyon.
(c) George Sherston.
(d) Stuart Cloete.

2. Siegfried Sassoon's last volume deals with what American history time span?
(a) World War II to present.
(b) Civil War to World War I.
(c) American Revolution to Civil War.
(d) World War I to World War II.

3. What is the second part of the trilogy concerned with?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Irony of war.
(c) Love of war.
(d) Casualty of war.

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

5. Shortly after Graves is released from the hospital the second time, he gets married. What month and year does he get married?
(a) January 1919.
(b) December 1919.
(c) January 1918.
(d) December 1918.

Short Answer Questions

1. The use of the pastoral in literature is an example of the model-like world of what?

2. Fussell begins by quoting a poem by whom?

3. In most war literature, men portrayed as homosexual were also what?

4. What is barbed wire discussed in terms of within English pastoral literature?

5. Where were there trenches buried underground for about four hundred miles?

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