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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long in 1916 did the British commander prepare his troops for the battle against the Germans?
(a) Last five months.
(b) Last six months.
(c) First six months.
(d) First six months.

2. Fussell refers to the Great War as what?
(a) The most hideous and the most outrageous.
(b) The most hideous and the most humorous.
(c) The most ironic and the most humorous.
(d) The most hideous and the most ironic.

3. Who is the author of the poem that spoke of symbolism for the colors for hospitalization and injury?
(a) George Sherston
(b) Stuart Cloete.
(c) R.W.M.
(d) Siegfried Sassoon.

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

5. What is the title of the final volume of the trilogy?
(a) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
(b) Sherston's Progress.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.

6. How many men were killed on one day in the 1916 battle between the Germans and the British?
(a) More than seventy thousand men.
(b) More than fifty thousand men.
(c) More than sixty thousand men.
(d) More than forty thousand men.

7. Imaginations of the mind are displayed by Fussell through what type of literature?
(a) English.
(b) French.
(c) Blunden.
(d) Post war.

8. What was the difference between British commanders Haig and Plumer?
(a) Training.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Strategic planning.
(d) Experience.

9. What are some different types of trenches called?
(a) Communication trenches.
(b) Saps
(c) Firing trenches.
(d) All answers are correct.

10. In what month was the peace armistice signed for World War I?
(a) August.
(b) November.
(c) September.
(d) October.

11. According to Fussell, what has been affected by time and war?
(a) Peace.
(b) Language.
(c) Literature.
(d) Innocence.

12. According to the crucifixion story, what held this soldiers hands and feet so that this soldier was crucified?
(a) Rifles.
(b) Spikes.
(c) Sticks.
(d) Bayonets.

13. How many men lost their lives in World War I?
(a) Eight million.
(b) Ten million.
(c) Eight and a half million.
(d) Nine million.

14. How were the German trenches in contrast to the British trenches?
(a) They are wet and damp.
(b) They are deeper and cleaner.
(c) They are cleaner and wetter.
(d) They are deeper and wetter.

15. Siegfried Sassoon's last volume deals with what American history time span?
(a) American Revolution to Civil War.
(b) World War I to World War II.
(c) Civil War to World War I.
(d) World War II to present.

Short Answer Questions

1. Specifically stated in the story, the troops in the trenches felt how?

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

3. What trench was the shallowest and used to advance a position?

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

5. What did the British commander think the 1916 battle against Germany would do?

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