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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. Fussell quotes Hardy, "Irony is the attendant of hope, and the fuel of hope is _______"
(a) Language.
(b) Peace.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Literature.

2. Where were there trenches buried underground for about four hundred miles?
(a) Germany and Britian.
(b) France and Germany.
(c) France and Belguim.
(d) Belguim and Germany.

3. What colors came to symbolize injury and hospitalization?
(a) Red, white, and blue.
(b) Yellow, red, and green.
(c) Red, white, and green.
(d) Yellow, red, and blue.

4. Some German trenches included what special features?
(a) Kitchens.
(b) Bunk beds.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Electricity.

5. One store that had a gift assortment that could be sent to men at the front was _____.
(a) Sears.
(b) Macy's.
(c) JC Penney.
(d) Harrods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Writers during the war chose to write about what as a popular topic?

2. What country's submarines were active in the Atlantic and ultimately brought America into World War I?

3. Most of the author's reference of sunrise and sunset are gone by what?

4. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?

5. What was the last line of the trenches referred to as?

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