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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. Where did this battle the British commander was preparing for against the Germans take place?
(a) Britian.
(b) Atlantic.
(c) Somme.
(d) Germany.

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

3. In many instances for soldiers in battle, the mind imagines what to be larger than life?
(a) The enemy.
(b) Defeat.
(c) Victory.
(d) Returning home.

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

5. Fussell begins by quoting a poem by whom?
(a) Thomas Hardy.
(b) Laurence Binyon.
(c) George Sherston.
(d) Walt Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The writer George Sherston uses the sky to describe _____.

3. Within the trenches, how many lines of troops were stationed there in war time?

4. What are some different types of trenches called?

5. What colors came to symbolize injury and hospitalization?

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