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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Theater of War.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What color are the Germans usually described in by soldiers who spent long periods of time in the trenches?
(a) Black.
(b) Grey.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blue.

3. "Death was denoted as going west, going out of it, or going under." Fussell uses these to show examples of _____.
(a) Aliteration.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Equivocation.
(d) Euphemism.

4. Who does Fussell mention is a very popular author of the time?
(a) George Sherston.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) Thomas Hardy.
(d) Siegfried Sassoon.

5. Who is the author of the story "How Young They Died;" referred to in The Great War and Modern Memory?
(a) George Sherston.
(b) Siegfried Sassoon.
(c) Stuart Cloete.
(d) Laurence Binyon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the second part of the trilogy?

2. A rumor was that Germany had someone in the trenches prior to wartime. Who was it?

3. What happened to some of the new language adapted from the war?

4. Where does Graves study English literature?

5. Who is the main character in the book Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the book that Fussell uses for discussion?

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