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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) Social.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Psychological.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

3. Fussell shares a story of a soldier who was said to be crucified. What country is this soldier from?
(a) Britian.
(b) France.
(c) Canada.
(d) German.

4. What color are the Germans usually described in by soldiers who spent long periods of time in the trenches?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blue.
(d) Grey.

5. How long in 1916 did the British commander prepare his troops for the battle against the Germans?
(a) Last six months.
(b) First six months.
(c) Last five months.
(d) First six months.

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

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

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

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

10. In what month was the peace armistice signed for World War I?
(a) November.
(b) August.
(c) September.
(d) October.

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

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

13. What author does Fussell mention in representing the idea of crucifixion?
(a) Robert Nichol.
(b) Wilfred Owen.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Sigfried Sassoon.

14. What was the last line of the trenches referred to as?
(a) Last line.
(b) Front line.
(c) Support line.
(d) Reserve line.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Within the trenches, how many lines of troops were stationed there in war time?

4. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?

5. During war time, what was censored?

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