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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. By the end of 1917, which country had withdrawn from the war due to the Bolshevik Revolution?
(a) Russia.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Britian.

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

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

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

5. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man where is the main character in autumn of 1914?
(a) Firing Line.
(b) Front Line.
(c) Reserve Line.
(d) Cavalry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Specifically stated in the story, the troops in the trenches felt how?

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

3. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?

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

5. Where did this battle the British commander was preparing for against the Germans take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Haig's command at the Battle of Somme in March 1918?

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

5. 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?

6. What was the British Line?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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