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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 last line of the trenches referred to as?
(a) Last line.
(b) Reserve line.
(c) Support line.
(d) Front line.

2. Fussell mentions that an author writes about the German person in the trenches prior to wartime. Who is it?
(a) George Coppard.
(b) George Sherston.
(c) Henry Williams.
(d) Siegfried Sassoon.

3. During World War II, where did many soldiers fight from?
(a) In another country.
(b) Close to home.
(c) Far from home.
(d) On another continent.

4. When soldiers wrote letters home, they were not always _____.
(a) Candid.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Respectful when writing about others.
(d) Honest.

5. A rumor of most wars concerns _____.
(a) Deserters.
(b) Officers.
(c) Generals.
(d) Troops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumors of war have what type of effect?

2. What services continued during the war to make the soldiers feel very close to home?

3. In total, about how many miles of trenches were built around an area and used around the winter of 1914?

4. Who was Robert Graves Lieutenant when he joins the First Battalion?

5. Fussell demonstrates the troops making a vocabulary that developed and they used in everyday life. What word was used to refer to passing units on the road?

(see the answer key)

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