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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Adversary Proceedings.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the difference between British commanders Haig and Plumer?
(a) Experience.
(b) Training.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Strategic planning.

3. At the beginning of World War I, what was the British's biggest problem?
(a) They were not prepared.
(b) They lost their military leader.
(c) They were badly injured.
(d) They were ill.

4. Specifically stated in the story, the troops in the trenches felt how?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Officers disrespected them.
(c) Officers didn't know what was happening on the front line.
(d) Officers didn't care about them.

5. Fussell quotes Hardy, "Irony is the attendant of hope, and the fuel of hope is _______"
(a) Peace.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Literature.
(d) Language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the final volume of the trilogy?

2. By mid-December 1914, British troops had been fighting on the Continent for how long?

3. What year was the last of Siegfried Sassoon's volumes published?

4. What are some different types of trenches called?

5. Where did this battle the British commander was preparing for against the Germans take place?

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