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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of World War I, what was the British's biggest problem?
(a) They were badly injured.
(b) They were ill.
(c) They were not prepared.
(d) They lost their military leader.

2. What was the difference between British commanders Haig and Plumer?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Experience.
(c) Training.
(d) Strategic planning.

3. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, in what year was George Sherson's best friend shot at the front?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1910.

4. In his writing, Hardy captures the fact he could hear _____ across the Channel?
(a) Explosions.
(b) Gunfire.
(c) Bombs.
(d) Airplanes.

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

6. The soldiers in the trenches are subject to the commands of who?
(a) All answers are incorrect.
(b) No one.
(c) Officers on the front line.
(d) Officers in the rear.

7. What trench was the shallowest and used to advance a position?
(a) Communication trench.
(b) Firing trench.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Sap.

8. By the end of 1917, which country had withdrawn from the war due to the Bolshevik Revolution?
(a) Germany.
(b) Russia.
(c) France.
(d) Britian.

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

10. According to this crucifixion story, who stood around until this soldier died?
(a) French.
(b) British.
(c) Germans.
(d) Canadians.

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

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

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

14. What are the prolonged implications from soldiers forced in the trenches for a long period of time?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Social.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Political.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In many instances for soldiers in battle, the mind imagines what to be larger than life?

3. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?

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

5. What time in the morning did the day begin for the troops in the trenches?

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