Selection Quizzes (English)



1.	When all is said and done, according to the writer Siegfried Sassoon, what is the war?
	A.	a long painful memory
	B.	shattered lives and rubble
	C.	mainly holes and ditches
	D.	crying and dying

2.	Why did the trenches zigzag every few yards?
	A.	to contain damage to a limited space and to prevent enfilade fire
	B.	to make them harder to see from the air
	C.	to allow more angles of gunfire in defense
	D.	to make for better communication between positions on the line

3.	What two American inventions does Fussell say contributed most to the personal menace of the war?
	A.	mustard gas and the repeating rifle
	B.	the telephone and the airplane
	C.	the tank and the trench
	D.	barbed wire and the machine gun

4.	In the trenches, what helped to create the air of a parody modern city?
	A.	directional and traffic control signs
	B.	fake store signs and advertisements
	C.	small telegraph poles and newspaper stands
	D.	fire hydrants and food carts

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