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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What style does Fussell show as being the direst way of saying what transpired, instead of using symbols or allusion?
(a) Ethical.
(b) Antithetical.
(c) Unethical.
(d) No answers are correct.

2. Who was Robert Graves Lieutenant when he joins the First Battalion?
(a) David Thomas.
(b) Anthony Burgess.
(c) George Sherston.
(d) George Adams.

3. When Robert Graves enters the military, where is he first stationed?
(a) Somme.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Bethune.
(d) Laventie.

4. Where does Graves study English literature?
(a) Berkely.
(b) Yale.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Harvard.

5. In total, about how many miles of trenches were built around an area and used around the winter of 1914?
(a) Two thousand.
(b) Two thousand five hundred.
(c) Three thousand.
(d) One thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. The war began for the British in terms of language following the assassination of _____.

2. In "Exposure," where do the men dream they are?

3. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?

4. During this time, what was considered the main form of entertainment?

5. What type of genre is the work "But It Still Goes On?"

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