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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Some German trenches included what special features?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Kitchens.
(d) Bunk beds.

3. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?
(a) The most ironic and the most humorous.
(b) The most hideous and the most outrageous.
(c) The most hideous and the most humorous.
(d) The most hideous and the most ironic.

4. Writers during the war chose to write about what as a popular topic?
(a) Sky and sunset.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Peace time.

5. Imaginations of the mind are displayed by Fussell through what type of literature?
(a) Blunden.
(b) Post war.
(c) English.
(d) French.

6. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man where is the main character in autumn of 1914?
(a) Cavalry.
(b) Front Line.
(c) Firing Line.
(d) Reserve Line.

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

8. About how far from the enemy were the first line of troops stationed in the trenches?
(a) Two hundred fifty yards.
(b) Fifty yards.
(c) Two hundred yards.
(d) One hundred fifty yards.

9. What was the last line of the trenches referred to as?
(a) Reserve line.
(b) Front line.
(c) Last line.
(d) Support line.

10. Fussell makes reference that some people thought the direction the farmers were plowing was an indication of _____.
(a) Troops.
(b) Treasure.
(c) Wind.
(d) No answers are correct.

11. By the end of 1917, Germany had shifted their troops in what direction?
(a) Western Front.
(b) Northern Front.
(c) Eastern Front.
(d) Southern Front.

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

13. In the third volume of the trilogy, where is Sherston?
(a) A London pub.
(b) Front line of the trenches.
(c) Hospital.
(d) Psychiatric hospital.

14. What is the second part of the trilogy concerned with?
(a) Casualty of war.
(b) Irony of war.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Love of war.

15. Rumors of war have what type of effect?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Social.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month and year did America enter World War I?

2. A rumor of most wars concerns _____.

3. Fussell mentions that an author writes about the German person in the trenches prior to wartime. Who is it?

4. Who is the author of the story "How Young They Died;" referred to in The Great War and Modern Memory?

5. Fussell shares a story of a soldier who was said to be crucified. What country is this soldier from?

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