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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. Specifically stated in the story, the troops in the trenches felt how?
(a) Officers didn't care about them.
(b) Officers didn't know what was happening on the front line.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Officers disrespected them.

2. At the 1916 Haig disaster, what equipment was introduced as a weapon?
(a) All answers are incorrect.
(b) Tank.
(c) Machine gun.
(d) Rifle.

3. Fussell quotes Hardy, "Irony is the attendant of hope, and the fuel of hope is _______"
(a) Peace.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Literature.
(d) Language.

4. Before World War I, how many years had it been since Britian was engaged in a major war?
(a) Two hundred years.
(b) One hundred fifty years.
(c) Fifty years.
(d) One hundred years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the second part of the trilogy?

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

3. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, when being sent to France, feels how?

4. Most of the author's reference of sunrise and sunset are gone by what?

5. What time in the morning did the day begin for the troops in the trenches?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare German trenches to British trenches.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. What happens to soldiers when they spend a lot of time in the trenches during war time?

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

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