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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Persistence and Memory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In actuality, what was an eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides?
(a) Trench.
(b) Bomb shelter.
(c) Fort Alamo.
(d) Ypres Salient.

2. In many instances for soldiers in battle, the mind imagines what to be larger than life?
(a) Victory.
(b) The enemy.
(c) Defeat.
(d) Returning home.

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

4. What was the absence of women for some soldiers?
(a) Problem.
(b) Curse.
(c) Blessing.
(d) Relief.

5. "Death was denoted as going west, going out of it, or going under." Fussell uses these to show examples of _____.
(a) Allusion.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Aliteration.
(d) Equivocation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Siegfried Sassoon's last volume deals with what American history time span?

2. What author does Fussell mention in representing the idea of crucifixion?

3. Who allowed the publication of Wilfred Owen's works after his death?

4. What is the second part of the trilogy concerned with?

5. The soldiers in the trenches are subject to the commands of who?

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