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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. Altogether, the Sassoon trilogy makes what type of point to the reader?
(a) Pyschological.
(b) Logical.
(c) Moral.
(d) Social.

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

3. What did George Sherston refer to his good luck piece as?
(a) Pocket dawn.
(b) Pocket sunrise.
(c) Pocket sunset.
(d) No answers are correct.

4. At the beginning of World War I, what was the British's biggest problem?
(a) They lost their military leader.
(b) They were not prepared.
(c) They were badly injured.
(d) They were ill.

5. The farmers who continued to work their fields behind the lines were surrounded by what?
(a) Fences.
(b) Rumors.
(c) Troops.
(d) Guards.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the German trenches in contrast to the British trenches?

2. The British had failed to do what by Christmas 1915?

3. What did men use to see out of the trenches?

4. Fussell quotes Hardy, "Irony is the attendant of hope, and the fuel of hope is _______"

5. Fussell mentions that an author writes about the German person in the trenches prior to wartime. Who is it?

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