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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 are some different types of trenches called?
(a) Firing trenches.
(b) Communication trenches.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Saps

2. Fussell mentions that an author writes about the German person in the trenches prior to wartime. Who is it?
(a) George Coppard.
(b) Siegfried Sassoon.
(c) Henry Williams.
(d) George Sherston.

3. Most of the author's reference of sunrise and sunset are gone by what?
(a) Civil War.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The British had failed to do what by Christmas 1915?

2. By mid-December 1914, British troops had been fighting on the Continent for how long?

3. Altogether, the Sassoon trilogy makes what type of point to the reader?

4. How were the German trenches in contrast to the British trenches?

5. In total, about how many miles of trenches were built around an area and used around the winter of 1914?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Fussell uses a variety of works by Sigfried Sassoon that he discusses in the book. What is the title of the first volume of Sassoon's trilogy, and what is the first volume about?

3. What is the title of the second volume of Sassoon's trilogy, and what is the second volume about?

4. Fussell shows an example of a soldier from a book by Stuart Cloete. In Cloete's book, How Young They Died, how does the soldier view time?

5. What was the difference between British commanders General Sir George Plumer and Sir Douglas Haig?

6. What was the British Line?

7. Rumors of most wars concern deserters. What do these rumors say?

8. What has happened to the area by the Somme River where a fierce battle in the war took place?

9. Compare German trenches to British trenches.

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

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