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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pastoral allusion is good in getting across what point?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Irony.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Imagination.

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?
(a) Etaples.
(b) Bugger.
(c) Idiot Crossroads.
(d) Old Jerry.

3. What is dependent on the hero's power of action?
(a) Comedy.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Drama.

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

5. What writer wrote a letter to his mother expressing the importance of visiting battle fields?
(a) Owen.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Pynchon.

Short Answer Questions

1. By mid-December 1914, British troops had been fighting on the Continent for how long?

2. Where did this battle the British commander was preparing for against the Germans take place?

3. Who are referred to as shepherds tending to their sheep?

4. Who does Fussell mention is a very popular author of the time?

5. The writer George Sherston uses the sky to describe _____.

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