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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In total, about how many miles of trenches were built around an area and used around the winter of 1914?
(a) Three thousand.
(b) Two thousand.
(c) Two thousand five hundred.
(d) One thousand.

2. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, when being sent to France, feels how?
(a) Sad.
(b) Confused.
(c) Angry.
(d) Cheerful.

3. Imaginations of the mind are displayed by Fussell through what type of literature?
(a) French.
(b) Blunden.
(c) Post war.
(d) English.

4. How were the German trenches in contrast to the British trenches?
(a) They are cleaner and wetter.
(b) They are wet and damp.
(c) They are deeper and wetter.
(d) They are deeper and cleaner.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Writers during the war chose to write about what as a popular topic?

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

4. In many instances for soldiers in battle, the mind imagines what to be larger than life?

5. Who is the main character in the book Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the book that Fussell uses for discussion?

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