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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. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?
(a) Fruit orchards.
(b) Highways.
(c) Vegetable fields.
(d) Residential houses.

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

3. What is the title of the second part of the trilogy?
(a) Sherston's Progress.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
(d) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.

4. What trench was the shallowest and used to advance a position?
(a) Sap.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Firing trench.
(d) Communication trench.

5. According to this crucifixion story, who stood around until this soldier died?
(a) Germans.
(b) British.
(c) French.
(d) Canadians.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his writing, Hardy captures the fact he could hear _____ across the Channel?

2. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?

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

4. This rumor also stated that this German person was wearing _____.

5. According to Fussell, what has been affected by time and war?

(see the answer key)

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