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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many men lost their lives in World War I?
(a) Eight and a half million.
(b) Nine million.
(c) Eight million.
(d) Ten million.

6. 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.

7. One store that had a gift assortment that could be sent to men at the front was _____.
(a) Sears.
(b) Macy's.
(c) Harrods.
(d) JC Penney.

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

9. Who is the author of the story "How Young They Died;" referred to in The Great War and Modern Memory?
(a) Siegfried Sassoon.
(b) George Sherston.
(c) Stuart Cloete.
(d) Laurence Binyon.

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

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

12. 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) Siegfried Sassoon.
(c) Evelyn Waugh.
(d) George Sherston.

13. 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.

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

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 By the end of 1917, which country had withdrawn from the war due to the Bolshevik Revolution?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

Short Answer Questions

1. Before World War I, how many years had it been since Britian was engaged in a major war?

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

3. What was the title of the poem that spoke of the symbolization for the colors for hospitalization and injury?

4. What is the second part of the trilogy concerned with?

5. In the third volume of the trilogy, where is Sherston?

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