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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Fussell, personalities change as people are exposed to _____.
(a) Rumors.
(b) War.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Weapons.

2. After he returns to his unit, what does Graves get sent to the hospital for?
(a) Severe fever.
(b) Mental illness.
(c) Bronchitis.
(d) Appendicitus.

3. What Greek god was young male beauty exemplified by?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Uranian.
(d) Eros.

4. What time in the morning did the day begin for the troops in the trenches?
(a) Four thirty.
(b) Three thirty.
(c) Five thirty.
(d) Four oclock.

5. Who was British and was said to contribute to theater in Britain, basically being considered a national asset?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Blunden.
(d) Graves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fussell ends his book with references to what author?

2. What do some writers like George Adam's associate the military with?

3. Sheep and shepherds by themselves are not pastoral. What might you add to them to make them pastoral?

4. When Graves recovers, he returns to his unit. Where is his unit stationed?

5. What does not capture the event in a way the writer had hoped?

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