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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to this crucifixion story, who stood around until this soldier died?

2. What month and year did America enter World War I?

3. A rumor was that Germany had someone in the trenches prior to wartime. Who was it?

4. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, in what year was George Sherson's best friend shot at the front?

5. Siegfried Sassoon's last volume deals with what American history time span?

Short Essay Questions

1. Name some assumptions made by the British on entering the war?

2. What was the paradox for many soldiers fighting in World War II?

3. Explain some of the rumors about farmers during wartime.

4. How does Robert Nichols's poem "Battery Moving Up to a New Position from Rest Camp: Dawn" show the symbolism of the Crucified Canadian?

5. What is meant by the statement that the Great War is the most hideous and the most ironic?

6. What is the title of the third and final volume of the trilogy by Siegfried Sassoon, and what is the third volume about?

7. Explain the story of the Crucified Canadian?

8. What was the purpose of Siegfried Sassoon's trilogy?

9. Describe the traditional ritual meaning of dawn and its association with the Great War.

10. How does George Sherston use the sky within his writings?

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