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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 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.

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

3. Rumors of war have what type of effect?
(a) Emotional.
(b) Social.
(c) Psychological.
(d) No answers are correct.

4. What did the British commander think the 1916 battle against Germany would do?
(a) Weaken British forces.
(b) Defeat German forces.
(c) Strengthen British forces.
(d) Bring an end to the war.

5. What was the difference between British commanders Haig and Plumer?
(a) Strategic planning.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Experience.
(d) Training.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, in what year was George Sherson's best friend shot at the front?

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

4. Fussell begins by quoting a poem by whom?

5. A rumor of most wars concerns _____.

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