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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Arcadian Recourses.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the rose mean to many people in England?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Inspiration.
(d) Imagination.

2. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?
(a) Herbert Read.
(b) Edmund Blunden.
(c) Wilfred Owens.
(d) Siegfried Sassoon.

3. During this time, what was considered the main form of entertainment?
(a) Literature and the arts.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Sports.
(d) Classical music.

4. What happened to some of the new language adapted from the war?
(a) Died after World War I.
(b) Died after World War II.
(c) Still in use today.
(d) Lost with the Great Depression.

5. The war began for the British in terms of language following the assassination of _____.
(a) Archduke Ferdinand.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) George Sherston.
(d) Siegfried Sassoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker at an elegy become aware of?

2. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, in what year was George Sherson's best friend shot at the front?

3. Fussell shows that some words, such as trench coat, stemmed from _____.

4. Fussell points out that what country's soldiers exude moral superiority?

5. What was the purpose of the attack on Edmund Blunden at Ypres?

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