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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 time in the morning did the day begin for the troops in the trenches?
(a) Three thirty.
(b) Four oclock.
(c) Four thirty.
(d) Five thirty.

2. What did the British commander think the 1916 battle against Germany would do?
(a) Weaken British forces.
(b) Defeat German forces.
(c) Strengthen British forces.
(d) Bring an end to the war.

3. In his writing, Hardy captures the fact he could hear _____ across the Channel?
(a) Gunfire.
(b) Airplanes.
(c) Explosions.
(d) Bombs.

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

5. Siegfried Sassoon's last volume deals with what American history time span?
(a) American Revolution to Civil War.
(b) World War II to present.
(c) World War I to World War II.
(d) Civil War to World War I.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did men use to see out of the trenches?

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

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

4. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?

5. Who does Fussell refer to as the master of spiritual irony?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the literature presented to illustrate the dichotomy between the officers and the soldiers?

3. What was the British Line?

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

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

6. 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?

7. What types of rumors and myths surrounded the number three?

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

9. What happened to the trenches when the wars ended?

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

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