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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Robert Graves Lieutenant when he joins the First Battalion?
(a) George Sherston.
(b) Anthony Burgess.
(c) David Thomas.
(d) George Adams.

2. In what month was the peace armistice signed for World War I?
(a) September.
(b) August.
(c) October.
(d) November.

3. Some rumors fed many _____.
(a) Short stories.
(b) Lies.
(c) Folktails.
(d) Poems.

4. What is the title of the second part of the trilogy?
(a) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
(b) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Sherston's Progress.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Fussell refer to as the master of spiritual irony?

2. George Sherston used to carry what as a good luck piece?

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

4. One store that had a gift assortment that could be sent to men at the front was _____.

5. Which cemeteries did the traditional social distinctions not apply?

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