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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. At the 1916 Haig disaster, what equipment was introduced as a weapon?
(a) Rifle.
(b) Tank.
(c) All answers are incorrect.
(d) Machine gun.

7. What did the British commander think the 1916 battle against Germany would do?
(a) Bring an end to the war.
(b) Defeat German forces.
(c) Weaken British forces.
(d) Strengthen British forces.

8. Where did this battle the British commander was preparing for against the Germans take place?
(a) Atlantic.
(b) Britian.
(c) Germany.
(d) Somme.

9. A rumor was that Germany had someone in the trenches prior to wartime. Who was it?
(a) Civilian.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Officer.
(d) Doctor.

10. 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.

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

12. The farmers who continued to work their fields behind the lines were surrounded by what?
(a) Guards.
(b) Troops.
(c) Rumors.
(d) Fences.

13. Specifically stated in the story, the troops in the trenches felt how?
(a) Officers disrespected them.
(b) Officers didn't care about them.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Officers didn't know what was happening on the front line.

14. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?
(a) Highways.
(b) Residential houses.
(c) Fruit orchards.
(d) Vegetable fields.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During World War II, where did many soldiers fight from?

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

3. George Sherston used to carry what as a good luck piece?

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

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

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