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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were people placed on the social scale for in the most pronounced pre-war class system?
(a) Education.
(b) Money.
(c) Communication skills.
(d) Clothing.

2. There are many literary links between war and what?
(a) Looting.
(b) Peace.
(c) Rape.
(d) Sexuality.

3. What services continued during the war to make the soldiers feel very close to home?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Magazine subscriptions.
(c) Mail service.
(d) Newspaper delivery.

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?
(a) Seriously injured.
(b) Dies.
(c) Suffers a mental breakdown.
(d) Discharged.

5. What style does Fussell show as being the direst way of saying what transpired, instead of using symbols or allusion?
(a) Ethical.
(b) Unethical.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Antithetical.

Short Answer Questions

1. During World War II, where did many soldiers fight from?

2. Where were there two movements that coincided at the time of the Great War?

3. One movement that occurred in England at the time of the Great War promoted a belief that education should consist of classical and English _____.

4. The Imperial War Graves Commission ruled that everyone is considered equal, including who?

5. Pilgrim's Progress is mentioned quite a bit with its references and allusions to _____.

(see the answer key)

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