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

2. What trench was the shallowest and used to advance a position?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Sap.
(c) Firing trench.
(d) Communication trench.

3. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?
(a) Happy.
(b) Confused.
(c) Disgusted.
(d) Mad.

4. Specifically stated in the story, the troops in the trenches felt how?
(a) Officers didn't know what was happening on the front line.
(b) Officers disrespected them.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Officers didn't care about them.

5. According to Fussell, personalities change as people are exposed to _____.
(a) Drugs.
(b) War.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Rumors.

Short Answer Questions

1. If it was a quiet day, what did troops do during the day?

2. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?

3. What trench type was four to six feet wide and six to eight feet deep?

4. What number played prominently in the methodology of the war?

5. Siegfried Sassoon's last volume deals with what American history time span?

(see the answer key)

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