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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Siegfried Sassoon's last volume deals with what American history time span?
(a) American Revolution to Civil War.
(b) Civil War to World War I.
(c) World War II to present.
(d) World War I to World War II.

2. In "Oh What a Literary War," the literature of the time is alive with _____.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Realism.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Imagination.

3. The soldiers in the trenches are subject to the commands of who?
(a) All answers are incorrect.
(b) Officers on the front line.
(c) Officers in the rear.
(d) No one.

4. What do some writers like George Adam's associate the military with?
(a) Literature.
(b) Myth.
(c) Theater.
(d) Ritual.

5. In "Exposure," where are the men freezing?
(a) Forest.
(b) Trenches.
(c) Homes.
(d) Barracks.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Death was denoted as going west, going out of it, or going under." Fussell uses these to show examples of _____.

2. Altogether, the Sassoon trilogy makes what type of point to the reader?

3. What was the title of the poem that spoke of the symbolization for the colors for hospitalization and injury?

4. What soldiers are said to have a flair for theatrics?

5. During World War II, where did many soldiers fight from?

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