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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time in the morning did the day begin for the troops in the trenches?
(a) Five thirty.
(b) Four oclock.
(c) Three thirty.
(d) Four thirty.

2. Who is the author of the story "How Young They Died;" referred to in The Great War and Modern Memory?
(a) Stuart Cloete.
(b) Laurence Binyon.
(c) Siegfried Sassoon.
(d) George Sherston.

3. What trench was the shallowest and used to advance a position?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Sap.
(c) Firing trench.
(d) Communication trench.

4. By the end of 1917, Germany had shifted their troops in what direction?
(a) Southern Front.
(b) Eastern Front.
(c) Western Front.
(d) Northern Front.

5. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?
(a) Happy.
(b) Confused.
(c) Disgusted.
(d) Mad.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month was the peace armistice signed for World War I?

2. Within the trenches, how many lines of troops were stationed there in war time?

3. Before World War I, how many years had it been since Britian was engaged in a major war?

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

5. Altogether, the Sassoon trilogy makes what type of point to the reader?

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