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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The writer George Sherston uses the sky to describe _____.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Various relationships.
(c) War time.
(d) Peace time.

5. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?
(a) Wilfred Owens.
(b) Herbert Read.
(c) Edmund Blunden.
(d) Siegfried Sassoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fussell mentions that some people thought that a certain language was not adequate enough to deal with war. Which language is it?

2. One store that had a gift assortment that could be sent to men at the front was _____.

3. What was the absence of women for some soldiers?

4. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?

5. What is the title of the second part of the trilogy?

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