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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. According to the crucifixion story, what was the soldier crucified to?
(a) Board.
(b) Fence.
(c) Pole.
(d) Tree.

2. Fussell begins by quoting a poem by whom?
(a) Laurence Binyon.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) George Sherston.

3. What were these trenches called?
(a) Line of Belguim.
(b) French ditches.
(c) German Line.
(d) British Line.

4. What country's submarines were active in the Atlantic and ultimately brought America into World War I?
(a) Britian.
(b) Germany.
(c) Scotland.
(d) France.

5. According to the crucifixion story, what held this soldiers hands and feet so that this soldier was crucified?
(a) Sticks.
(b) Bayonets.
(c) Spikes.
(d) Rifles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before World War I, how many years had it been since Britian was engaged in a major war?

2. At the beginning of World War I, who was the British commander?

3. Where were there trenches buried underground for about four hundred miles?

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

5. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?

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