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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. This rumor also stated that this German person was wearing _____.
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Soft cap.
(c) Steel helmets.
(d) Hardhats.

2. During war time, what was censored?
(a) Press.
(b) Writing.
(c) Literature.
(d) Speech.

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

4. George Sherston used to carry what as a good luck piece?
(a) A four leaf clover.
(b) A feather.
(c) A pen.
(d) A chunk of fire opal.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?

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

4. What is the second part of the trilogy concerned with?

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

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