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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The last of the volumes of Siegfried Sassoon's works is called _____.
(a) Siegfried's Travel.
(b) Siegfried's Journey Through Life.
(c) Siegfried's Journey.
(d) Siegfried's Life.

2. The war began for the British in terms of language following the assassination of _____.
(a) Archduke Ferdinand.
(b) George Sherston.
(c) Siegfried Sassoon.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

3. What did the army give soldiers a life not complicated by?
(a) Women.
(b) Love.
(c) Sex.
(d) Fights.

4. What is the title of the second part of the trilogy?
(a) Sherston's Progress.
(b) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.

5. Within writings, there are many comparisons of soldiers as sheep being led where?
(a) Slaughter.
(b) Fields.
(c) Trenches.
(d) Sheerer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the purpose of the attack on Edmund Blunden at Ypres?

2. In what month was the peace armistice signed for World War I?

3. What trench was the shallowest and used to advance a position?

4. According to Fussell, what has been affected by time and war?

5. Who was British and was said to contribute to theater in Britain, basically being considered a national asset?

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