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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Name an author who shows how birds are associated with sunrise and sunset?
(a) Owen.
(b) Burgess.
(c) Blunden.
(d) Sassoon.

3. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?
(a) Happy.
(b) Confused.
(c) Disgusted.
(d) Mad.

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

5. What time in the morning did the day begin for the troops in the trenches?
(a) Four thirty.
(b) Five thirty.
(c) Three thirty.
(d) Four oclock.

Short Answer Questions

1. Siegfried Sassoon's last volume deals with what American history time span?

2. 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?

3. What Greek god was young male beauty exemplified by?

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

5. What month and year did America enter World War I?

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