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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Troglodyte World.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The British had failed to do what by Christmas 1915?
(a) Break through German lines.
(b) Start a piece treaty.
(c) Win any battles.
(d) Win the war.

4. What trench type was four to six feet wide and six to eight feet deep?
(a) Communication trench.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Firing trench.
(d) Sap.

5. What was the last line of the trenches referred to as?
(a) Front line.
(b) Last line.
(c) Support line.
(d) Reserve line.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did men use to see out of the trenches?

2. At the 1916 Haig disaster, what equipment was introduced as a weapon?

3. According to the British commander, what was obvious to him throughout the first part of the war?

4. How were the German trenches in contrast to the British trenches?

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

(see the answer key)

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