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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The use of the pastoral in literature is an example of the model-like world of what?
(a) English writing.
(b) Scotish writing.
(c) French writing.
(d) German writing.

2. What did men use to see out of the trenches?
(a) Their eyes.
(b) Telescope.
(c) Periscopes.
(d) Binoculars.

3. What author does Fussell mention in representing the idea of crucifixion?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Wilfred Owen.
(c) Sigfried Sassoon.
(d) Robert Nichol.

4. There are many literary links between war and what?
(a) Peace.
(b) Looting.
(c) Rape.
(d) Sexuality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?

2. What services continued during the war to make the soldiers feel very close to home?

3. Shortly after Graves is released from the hospital the second time, he gets married. What month and year does he get married?

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

5. Where were there trenches buried underground for about four hundred miles?

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