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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color are the Germans usually described in by soldiers who spent long periods of time in the trenches?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) Grey.
(d) Brown.

2. What author does Fussell mention in representing the idea of crucifixion?
(a) Robert Nichol.
(b) Sigfried Sassoon.
(c) Wilfred Owen.
(d) All answers are correct.

3. Who is the author of "Soldiers Bathing?"
(a) Douglas.
(b) Brooke.
(c) Prince.
(d) Graves.

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. Writers during the war chose to write about what as a popular topic?
(a) Sky and sunset.
(b) Peace time.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the crucifixion story, what held this soldiers hands and feet so that this soldier was crucified?

2. What type of world is a soldier's world in the battlefield?

3. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man where is the main character in autumn of 1914?

4. "Death was denoted as going west, going out of it, or going under." Fussell uses these to show examples of _____.

5. The last of the volumes of Siegfried Sassoon's works is called _____.

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