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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Oh What a Literary War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fussell shares a story of a soldier who was said to be crucified. What country is this soldier from?
(a) Britian.
(b) German.
(c) France.
(d) Canada.

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

3. In actuality, what was an eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides?
(a) Trench.
(b) Bomb shelter.
(c) Ypres Salient.
(d) Fort Alamo.

4. Some German trenches included what special features?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Kitchens.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Bunk beds.

5. Most of the author's reference of sunrise and sunset are gone by what?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) World War II.
(c) Civil War.
(d) World War I.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The farmers who continued to work their fields behind the lines were surrounded by what?

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

4. According to the crucifixion story, what held this soldiers hands and feet so that this soldier was crucified?

5. The last of the volumes of Siegfried Sassoon's works is called _____.

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