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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 services continued during the war to make the soldiers feel very close to home?
(a) Magazine subscriptions.
(b) Newspaper delivery.
(c) Mail service.
(d) All answers are correct.

2. What year was the last of Siegfried Sassoon's volumes published?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1950.

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

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

5. Where did this battle the British commander was preparing for against the Germans take place?
(a) Somme.
(b) Germany.
(c) Atlantic.
(d) Britian.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the 1916 Haig disaster, what equipment was introduced as a weapon?

2. Some German trenches included what special features?

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

4. What is the title of the final volume of the trilogy?

5. In many instances for soldiers in battle, the mind imagines what to be larger than life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the myth of the ruined basilica with a statue of the Virgin and Child on top in Albert, France?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was the British's army biggest problem?

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

10. What was the British Line?

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