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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 happened to some of the new language adapted from the war?
(a) Still in use today.
(b) Died after World War II.
(c) Lost with the Great Depression.
(d) Died after World War I.

2. Who was Robert Graves Lieutenant when he joins the First Battalion?
(a) Anthony Burgess.
(b) David Thomas.
(c) George Adams.
(d) George Sherston.

3. 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) Injured.
(d) Tricolor.

4. Class distinctions applied in the military also as class determined their positions where?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Rank.
(c) Battle.
(d) Service.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the British commander think the 1916 battle against Germany would do?

2. What were these trenches called?

3. Specifically stated in the story, the troops in the trenches felt how?

4. Who does Robert Graves meet when he joins the First Battalion?

5. Altogether, the Sassoon trilogy makes what type of point to the reader?

(see the answer key)

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