War Literature Quiz 2 (8 MCQs)

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1. What is the term for words which end with the same sounds, usually at the end of lines of poetry?
2. The story of a child that experiences the horror of the battlefield first hand.
3. "We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."
4. "A street of farmers' homesteads-a streetruled by a mayor and corporation, yet echoingwith the thump of the flail, the flutter of thewinnowing-fan, and the purr of the milk into thepails-a street which had nothing urban in itwhatever-this was the Durnover end ofCasterbridge." Identify the onomatopeia in the passage.
5. "Evening of a hot day started the little wind tomoving among the leaves. The shade climbedup the hills toward the top. On the sand banksthe rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones." What is being personified in this passage?
6. Abraham Lincoln became the ..... president.
7. Spotted; stained
8. What was the peak number of U.S. troops in Vietnam?