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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Adversary Proceedings.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?
(a) Mad.
(b) Disgusted.
(c) Confused.
(d) Happy.

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

3. About how far from the enemy were the first line of troops stationed in the trenches?
(a) Two hundred fifty yards.
(b) One hundred fifty yards.
(c) Two hundred yards.
(d) Fifty yards.

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

5. Fussell begins by quoting a poem by whom?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) Laurence Binyon.
(d) George Sherston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the prolonged implications from soldiers forced in the trenches for a long period of time?

2. In Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man where is the main character in autumn of 1914?

3. Fussell quotes Hardy, "Irony is the attendant of hope, and the fuel of hope is _______"

4. What was the difference between British commanders Haig and Plumer?

5. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?

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