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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Graves recovers, he returns to his unit. Where is his unit stationed?
(a) Somme.
(b) Laventie.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Bethune.

2. Who is the author of "Exposure"?
(a) Edmund Blunden
(b) Wilfred Owens
(c) David Jones.
(d) Herbert Reads

3. In actuality, what was an eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides?
(a) Ypres Salient.
(b) Bomb shelter.
(c) Fort Alamo.
(d) Trench.

4. What type of soldiers are considered vulnerable in wartime literature?
(a) Weak soldiers.
(b) Naked soldiers.
(c) Bathing soldiers.
(d) Injured soldiers.

5. Rumors of war have what type of effect?
(a) Emotional.
(b) Social.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Psychological.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the British commander think the 1916 battle against Germany would do?

2. What year was the last of Siegfried Sassoon's volumes published?

3. What happened to some of the new language adapted from the war?

4. In Robert Graves work, Goodbye to All That, Graves tells the story of his own life. In battle his friend is killed in action. What happens to Graves while in battle?

5. At the beginning of World War I, what was the British's biggest problem?

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