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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. Writers during the war chose to write about what as a popular topic?
(a) Peace time.
(b) Sky and sunset.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Soldiers.

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

3. How were the German trenches in contrast to the British trenches?
(a) They are cleaner and wetter.
(b) They are deeper and wetter.
(c) They are wet and damp.
(d) They are deeper and cleaner.

4. By the end of 1917, Germany had shifted their troops in what direction?
(a) Eastern Front.
(b) Western Front.
(c) Southern Front.
(d) Northern Front.

5. What did George Sherston refer to his good luck piece as?
(a) Pocket sunset.
(b) Pocket sunrise.
(c) Pocket dawn.
(d) No answers are correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of World War I, who was the British commander?

2. In the third volume of the trilogy, where is Sherston?

3. The soldiers in the trenches are subject to the commands of who?

4. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?

5. How long in 1916 did the British commander prepare his troops for the battle against the Germans?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did various authors bring in the topic of the sunrise and sunset in reference to the war?

2. Compare German trenches to British trenches.

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

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

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

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

7. What was the British Line?

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

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

10. What is the relationship between the officers and the soldiers?

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