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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Soldier Boys.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the soldier seek as a way of countering loneliness and terror in the battle field?
(a) Affection.
(b) Communication.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

2. At what age did Robert Grave's enter the military?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Eighteen.

3. The soldiers in the trenches are subject to the commands of who?
(a) No one.
(b) Officers in the rear.
(c) All answers are incorrect.
(d) Officers on the front line.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is looting usually associated with?

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

3. Fussell mentions that an author writes about the German person in the trenches prior to wartime. Who is it?

4. Imaginations of the mind are displayed by Fussell through what type of literature?

5. The use of the pastoral in literature is an example of the model-like world of what?

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