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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the main character in the book Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the book that Fussell uses for discussion?
(a) George Sherston.
(b) Stuart Cloete.
(c) Evelyn Waugh.
(d) Siegfried Sassoon.

2. When soldiers wrote letters home, they were not always _____.
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Candid.
(c) Respectful when writing about others.
(d) Honest.

3. The writer George Sherston uses the sky to describe _____.
(a) Various relationships.
(b) War time.
(c) Peace time.
(d) Beauty.

4. According to Fussell, modern war requires an accompanying ______.
(a) Literature.
(b) Peace.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Language.

5. What is the title of the final volume of the trilogy?
(a) Sherston's Progress.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
(d) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, when being sent to France, feels how?

2. In his writing, Hardy captures the fact he could hear _____ across the Channel?

3. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?

4. By the end of 1917, which country had withdrawn from the war due to the Bolshevik Revolution?

5. What did George Sherston refer to his good luck piece as?

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