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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If it was a quiet day, what did troops do during the day?
(a) Relaxed.
(b) Wrote letters.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Made repairs to equipment and trenches.

2. Where did this battle the British commander was preparing for against the Germans take place?
(a) Atlantic.
(b) Somme.
(c) Britian.
(d) Germany.

3. At the beginning of World War I, who was the British commander?
(a) Sir Douglas Haig.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) George Sherston.
(d) General Sir George Plumer.

4. Where were there trenches buried underground for about four hundred miles?
(a) Belguim and Germany.
(b) France and Belguim.
(c) France and Germany.
(d) Germany and Britian.

5. What did the British commander think the 1916 battle against Germany would do?
(a) Weaken British forces.
(b) Strengthen British forces.
(c) Bring an end to the war.
(d) Defeat German forces.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. By the end of 1917, Germany had shifted their troops in what direction?

5. In total, about how many miles of trenches were built around an area and used around the winter of 1914?

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