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

2. What number played prominently in the methodology of the war?
(a) One.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

3. What month and year did America enter World War I?
(a) March 1918.
(b) April 1918.
(c) April 1917.
(d) May 1917.

4. What trench type was four to six feet wide and six to eight feet deep?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Sap.
(c) Firing trench.
(d) Communication trench.

5. What time in the morning did the day begin for the troops in the trenches?
(a) Three thirty.
(b) Four thirty.
(c) Four oclock.
(d) Five thirty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of the story "How Young They Died;" referred to in The Great War and Modern Memory?

3. Who does Fussell refer to as the master of spiritual irony?

4. What were these trenches called?

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

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