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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Troglodyte World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?
(a) Residential houses.
(b) Highways.
(c) Fruit orchards.
(d) Vegetable fields.

2. George Sherston used to carry what as a good luck piece?
(a) A four leaf clover.
(b) A pen.
(c) A feather.
(d) A chunk of fire opal.

3. What month and year did America enter World War I?
(a) April 1918.
(b) April 1917.
(c) March 1918.
(d) May 1917.

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 forty thousand men.
(c) More than seventy thousand men.
(d) More than fifty thousand men.

5. What were these trenches called?
(a) British Line.
(b) German Line.
(c) French ditches.
(d) Line of Belguim.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the 1916 Haig disaster, what equipment was introduced as a weapon?

2. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?

3. About how far from the enemy were the first line of troops stationed in the trenches?

4. Writers during the war chose to write about what as a popular topic?

5. Fussell quotes Hardy, "Irony is the attendant of hope, and the fuel of hope is _______"

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