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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Writers during the war chose to write about what as a popular topic?
(a) Sky and sunset.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Peace time.

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

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

4. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?
(a) More than fifty thousand men.
(b) More than forty thousand men.
(c) More than sixty thousand men.
(d) More than seventy thousand men.

5. Siegfried Sassoon's last volume deals with what American history time span?
(a) American Revolution to Civil War.
(b) Civil War to World War I.
(c) World War I to World War II.
(d) World War II to present.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the British commander think the 1916 battle against Germany would do?

3. What did men use to see out of the trenches?

4. According to Fussell, what has been affected by time and war?

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

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