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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?
(a) More than fifty thousand men.
(b) More than sixty thousand men.
(c) More than forty thousand men.
(d) More than seventy thousand men.

4. 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) Three thousand.
(c) Two thousand.
(d) One thousand.

5. When soldiers wrote letters home, they were not always _____.
(a) Respectful when writing about others.
(b) Candid.
(c) Honest.
(d) All answers are correct.

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

7. The last of the volumes of Siegfried Sassoon's works is called _____.
(a) Siegfried's Journey Through Life.
(b) Siegfried's Life.
(c) Siegfried's Journey.
(d) Siegfried's Travel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. According to the crucifixion story, what was the soldier crucified to?
(a) Pole.
(b) Tree.
(c) Board.
(d) Fence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. This rumor also stated that this German person was wearing _____.

3. Fussell makes reference that some people thought the direction the farmers were plowing was an indication of _____.

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

5. What year was the last of Siegfried Sassoon's volumes published?

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