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Quiz for Document 22–3: Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What was the anonymous letter writer most afraid of during his World War I service in France?

Getting killed without having had a chance to kill a German

Becoming a prisoner of war of the feared Germans

Having to kill someone in hand-to-hand combat

Experiencing cowardice and letting down his comrades

2. How did the soldier characterize the fighting in the Argonne Forest?

Determined by distant artillery fire

Dominated by machine gun fire

Consisting of extended trench warfare

Involving close, hand-to-hand encounters

3. What was the soldier’s general attitude toward German troops?

Sympathy

Detachment

Anger

Caution