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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the third volume of the trilogy, where is Sherston?
(a) Psychiatric hospital.
(b) Front line of the trenches.
(c) Hospital.
(d) A London pub.

2. Pilgrim's Progress is mentioned quite a bit with its references and allusions to _____.
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) War.
(d) Thanksgiving.

3. The use of the pastoral in literature is an example of the model-like world of what?
(a) English writing.
(b) French writing.
(c) Scotish writing.
(d) German writing.

4. The war changed the language and people tried to find terms that did what?
(a) Focused on forgiveness.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Softened the effects of the realities of the war.
(d) Tried to focus on peace.

5. Who is the main character in the book Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the book that Fussell uses for discussion?
(a) Evelyn Waugh.
(b) Siegfried Sassoon.
(c) George Sherston.
(d) Stuart Cloete.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?

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

4. What did the rose mean to many people in England?

5. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?

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