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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Myth, Ritual, and Romance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the end of 1917, which country had withdrawn from the war due to the Bolshevik Revolution?
(a) Britian.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Russia.

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

3. What year was the last of Siegfried Sassoon's volumes published?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1945.

4. George Sherston used to carry what as a good luck piece?
(a) A pen.
(b) A four leaf clover.
(c) A feather.
(d) A chunk of fire opal.

5. The farmers who continued to work their fields behind the lines were surrounded by what?
(a) Guards.
(b) Fences.
(c) Troops.
(d) Rumors.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men lost their lives in World War I?

2. Who is the main character in the book Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the book that Fussell uses for discussion?

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

4. What are along the Somme today where the fierce battles were fought?

5. In many instances for soldiers in battle, the mind imagines what to be larger than life?

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