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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Over a period of time, the soldiers became polarized in their _____.
(a) Communication.
(b) Spending money.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Way of life.

2. Altogether, the Sassoon trilogy makes what type of point to the reader?
(a) Pyschological.
(b) Moral.
(c) Social.
(d) Logical.

3. What year was the last of Siegfried Sassoon's volumes published?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1945.

4. What type of genre is the work "But It Still Goes On?"
(a) Poetry.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Non-fiction.
(d) Comedy.

5. What was the purpose of the organization Special Operations Executive?
(a) Officer's Club.
(b) Espionage.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Investigation.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to this crucifixion story, who stood around until this soldier died?

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

3. In total, about how many miles of trenches were built around an area and used around the winter of 1914?

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

5. What style does Fussell show as being the direst way of saying what transpired, instead of using symbols or allusion?

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