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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did George Sherston refer to his good luck piece as?
(a) Pocket sunset.
(b) Pocket sunrise.
(c) Pocket dawn.
(d) No answers are correct.

3. What year was the last of Siegfried Sassoon's volumes published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1940.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?

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

3. Imaginations of the mind are displayed by Fussell through what type of literature?

4. How many men lost their lives in World War I?

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

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