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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Persistence and Memory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who allowed the publication of Wilfred Owen's works after his death?
(a) Mother.
(b) Publisher.
(c) Father.
(d) Commanding officer.

2. At what times did the pubs close during war time?
(a) early morning.
(b) Afternoons.
(c) Early evening.
(d) Late night.

3. Who is the author of "Gravity's Rainbow?"
(a) Frances Cornford.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) Wilfred Owen.
(d) Thomas Pynchon.

4. What is usually associated with the excitement of fighting in the infantry and on the battlefield?
(a) Sex.
(b) Masturbation.
(c) Looting.
(d) Rape.

5. Where were there trenches buried underground for about four hundred miles?
(a) France and Germany.
(b) France and Belguim.
(c) Belguim and Germany.
(d) Germany and Britian.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the 1916 Haig disaster, what equipment was introduced as a weapon?

2. Fussell mentions that an author writes about the German person in the trenches prior to wartime. Who is it?

3. According to Fussell, personalities change as people are exposed to _____.

4. Some German trenches included what special features?

5. Before World War I, how many years had it been since Britian was engaged in a major war?

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