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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What were these trenches called?
(a) French ditches.
(b) British Line.
(c) Line of Belguim.
(d) German Line.

5. During war time, what was censored?
(a) Press.
(b) Writing.
(c) Literature.
(d) Speech.

6. What number played prominently in the methodology of the war?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

7. If it was a quiet day, what did troops do during the day?
(a) Relaxed.
(b) Wrote letters.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Made repairs to equipment and trenches.

8. What trench type was four to six feet wide and six to eight feet deep?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Sap.
(c) Firing trench.
(d) Communication trench.

9. By mid-December 1914, British troops had been fighting on the Continent for how long?
(a) Over five months.
(b) Over nine months.
(c) Over three months.
(d) Over seven months.

10. What is the title of the final volume of the trilogy?
(a) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.
(b) Sherston's Progress.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.

11. In many instances for soldiers in battle, the mind imagines what to be larger than life?
(a) Victory.
(b) Defeat.
(c) The enemy.
(d) Returning home.

12. This rumor also stated that this German person was wearing _____.
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Soft cap.
(c) Hardhats.
(d) Steel helmets.

13. Who does Fussell refer to as the master of spiritual irony?
(a) George Sherston.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) Sir Douglas Haig.
(d) General Sir George Plumer.

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

15. Most of the author's reference of sunrise and sunset are gone by what?
(a) World War I.
(b) Civil War.
(c) World War II.
(d) No answers are correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trench was the shallowest and used to advance a position?

2. Some rumors fed many _____.

3. Fussell begins by quoting a poem by whom?

4. What color are the Germans usually described in by soldiers who spent long periods of time in the trenches?

5. At the beginning of World War I, what was the British's biggest problem?

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