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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What colors came to symbolize injury and hospitalization?
(a) Red, white, and blue.
(b) Yellow, red, and blue.
(c) Yellow, red, and green.
(d) Red, white, and green.

2. What services continued during the war to make the soldiers feel very close to home?
(a) Mail service.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Newspaper delivery.
(d) Magazine subscriptions.

3. When Robert Graves enters the military, where is he first stationed?
(a) Laventie.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Somme.
(d) Bethune.

4. In total, about how many miles of trenches were built around an area and used around the winter of 1914?
(a) Two thousand five hundred.
(b) One thousand.
(c) Two thousand.
(d) Three thousand.

5. The farmers who continued to work their fields behind the lines were surrounded by what?
(a) Fences.
(b) Troops.
(c) Rumors.
(d) Guards.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of 1917, Germany had shifted their troops in what direction?

2. According to the crucifixion story, what held this soldiers hands and feet so that this soldier was crucified?

3. In Robert Graves work, Goodbye to All That, Graves tells the story of his own life. In battle his friend is killed in action. What happens to Graves while in battle?

4. Within the trenches, how many lines of troops were stationed there in war time?

5. Who explored the First World War from the viewpoint of a burial taking place in Ulster?

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