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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. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?
(a) More than seventy thousand men.
(b) More than fifty thousand men.
(c) More than sixty thousand men.
(d) More than forty thousand men.

2. Fussell makes reference that some people thought the direction the farmers were plowing was an indication of _____.
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Troops.
(c) Wind.
(d) Treasure.

3. Fussell shares a story of a soldier who was said to be crucified. What country is this soldier from?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) German.
(d) Britian.

4. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?
(a) Fruit orchards.
(b) Vegetable fields.
(c) Highways.
(d) Residential houses.

5. Who is the author of the poem that spoke of symbolism for the colors for hospitalization and injury?
(a) Siegfried Sassoon.
(b) R.W.M.
(c) George Sherston
(d) Stuart Cloete.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trench was the shallowest and used to advance a position?

2. What time in the morning did the day begin for the troops in the trenches?

3. According to this crucifixion story, who stood around until this soldier died?

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

5. What year was the last of Siegfried Sassoon's volumes published?

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