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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 shows that some words, such as trench coat, stemmed from _____.
(a) France.
(b) Trenches.
(c) England.
(d) War.

2. What was the title of the poem that spoke of the symbolization for the colors for hospitalization and injury?
(a) E.R.
(b) Trauma.
(c) Tricolor.
(d) Injured.

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

4. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?
(a) More than sixty thousand men.
(b) More than seventy thousand men.
(c) More than fifty thousand men.
(d) More than forty thousand men.

5. Who does Fussell refer to as the master of spiritual irony?
(a) George Sherston.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) Sir Douglas Haig.
(d) General Sir George Plumer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fussell shares a story of a soldier who was said to be crucified. What country is this soldier from?

2. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?

3. At the beginning of World War I, who was the British commander?

4. According to this crucifixion story, who stood around until this soldier died?

5. After Graves is released from the hospital the second time, where does Graves spend the remainder of the war?

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