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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 the prolonged implications from soldiers forced in the trenches for a long period of time?
(a) Political.
(b) Psychological.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Social.

2. During war time, what was censored?
(a) Literature.
(b) Press.
(c) Writing.
(d) Speech.

3. Who does Fussell refer to as the master of spiritual irony?
(a) Sir Douglas Haig.
(b) George Sherston.
(c) Thomas Hardy.
(d) General Sir George Plumer.

4. What did men use to see out of the trenches?
(a) Periscopes.
(b) Binoculars.
(c) Their eyes.
(d) Telescope.

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 By the end of 1917, which country had withdrawn from the war due to the Bolshevik Revolution?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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were these trenches called?

2. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?

3. What colors came to symbolize injury and hospitalization?

4. Before World War I, how many years had it been since Britian was engaged in a major war?

5. What is the second part of the trilogy concerned with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the story of the Crucified Canadian?

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 three things happened in November 1918 when the Allies broke through the German lines with their counterattack?

4. Fussell uses and quotes Thomas Hardy. Fussell begins by quoting a Thomas Hardy poem. Why does Fussell quote Hardy about the war?

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

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

7. What was the purpose of Siegfried Sassoon's trilogy?

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

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

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

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