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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fussell makes reference that some people thought the direction the farmers were plowing was an indication of _____.
(a) Treasure.
(b) Wind.
(c) Troops.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

3. How long in 1916 did the British commander prepare his troops for the battle against the Germans?
(a) Last five months.
(b) First six months.
(c) Last six months.
(d) First six months.

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

5. The soldiers in the trenches are subject to the commands of who?
(a) All answers are incorrect.
(b) Officers on the front line.
(c) Officers in the rear.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of the poem that spoke of the symbolization for the colors for hospitalization and injury?

2. In actuality, what was an eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides?

3. What were people placed on the social scale for in the most pronounced pre-war class system?

4. According to the crucifixion story, what was the soldier crucified to?

5. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?

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