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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Soldier Boys.

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 I.
(c) Died after World War II.
(d) Lost with the Great Depression.

2. When Robert Graves enters the military, where is he first stationed?
(a) Laventie.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Somme.
(d) Bethune.

3. What were people placed on the social scale for in the most pronounced pre-war class system?
(a) Money.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Communication skills.
(d) Education.

4. The eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides is Fussell's example of _____.
(a) Aliteration.
(b) Equivocation.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Euphemism.

5. Imaginations of the mind are displayed by Fussell through what type of literature?
(a) English.
(b) French.
(c) Blunden.
(d) Post war.

Short Answer Questions

1. George Sherston used to carry what as a good luck piece?

2. What type of world is a soldier's world in the battlefield?

3. Pastoral allusion is good in getting across what point?

4. Who allowed the publication of Wilfred Owen's works after his death?

5. What author does Fussell mention in representing the idea of crucifixion?

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