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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man where is the main character in autumn of 1914?
(a) Reserve Line.
(b) Firing Line.
(c) Cavalry.
(d) Front Line.

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

3. Altogether, the Sassoon trilogy makes what type of point to the reader?
(a) Pyschological.
(b) Social.
(c) Moral.
(d) Logical.

4. Where were there trenches buried underground for about four hundred miles?
(a) France and Belguim.
(b) Germany and Britian.
(c) Belguim and Germany.
(d) France and Germany.

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

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 By the end of 1917, which country had withdrawn from the war due to the Bolshevik Revolution?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

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

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

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

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

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

12. In the third volume of the trilogy, where is Sherston?
(a) Psychiatric hospital.
(b) Hospital.
(c) Front line of the trenches.
(d) A London pub.

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

14. In total, about how many miles of trenches were built around an area and used around the winter of 1914?
(a) Two thousand.
(b) Three thousand.
(c) One thousand.
(d) Two thousand five hundred.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Fussell, modern war requires an accompanying ______.

2. Who is the main character in the book Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the book that Fussell uses for discussion?

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

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

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

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