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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Myth, Ritual, and Romance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the prolonged implications from soldiers forced in the trenches for a long period of time?
(a) Social.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Political.
(d) All answers are correct.

2. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?
(a) The most hideous and the most humorous.
(b) The most hideous and the most outrageous.
(c) The most ironic and the most humorous.
(d) The most hideous and the most ironic.

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

4. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, in what year was George Sherson's best friend shot at the front?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1910.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the final volume of the trilogy written?

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

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

4. This rumor also stated that this German person was wearing _____.

5. Some German trenches included what special features?

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