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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Fussell, modern war requires an accompanying ______.
(a) Language.
(b) Literature.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Peace.

2. Who is the main character in the book Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the book that Fussell uses for discussion?
(a) Stuart Cloete.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) Siegfried Sassoon.
(d) George Sherston.

3. Fussell mentions that an author writes about the German person in the trenches prior to wartime. Who is it?
(a) Henry Williams.
(b) George Sherston.
(c) Siegfried Sassoon.
(d) George Coppard.

4. What did men use to see out of the trenches?
(a) Their eyes.
(b) Periscopes.
(c) Binoculars.
(d) Telescope.

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

6. According to the crucifixion story, what held this soldiers hands and feet so that this soldier was crucified?
(a) Rifles.
(b) Spikes.
(c) Bayonets.
(d) Sticks.

7. George Sherston used to carry what as a good luck piece?
(a) A pen.
(b) A chunk of fire opal.
(c) A four leaf clover.
(d) A feather.

8. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, when being sent to France, feels how?
(a) Cheerful.
(b) Sad.
(c) Angry.
(d) Confused.

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

10. What are some different types of trenches called?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Firing trenches.
(c) Communication trenches.
(d) Saps

11. During World War II, where did many soldiers fight from?
(a) On another continent.
(b) Far from home.
(c) In another country.
(d) Close to home.

12. Who is the author of the poem that spoke of symbolism for the colors for hospitalization and injury?
(a) Siegfried Sassoon.
(b) R.W.M.
(c) Stuart Cloete.
(d) George Sherston

13. Within the trenches, how many lines of troops were stationed there in war time?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

14. Fussell begins by quoting a poem by whom?
(a) Thomas Hardy.
(b) George Sherston.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Laurence Binyon.

15. According to the British commander, what was obvious to him throughout the first part of the war?
(a) They needed men to enlist.
(b) They needed more army members.
(c) They needed a better attack plan.
(d) They needed a stronger army.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?

4. Fussell quotes Hardy, "Irony is the attendant of hope, and the fuel of hope is _______"

5. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man where is the main character in autumn of 1914?

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