Veterans Day Quiz

The original name for Veterans Day was

• Memorial Day
• Armistice Day
• Military Day

The first Armistice Day was to honor 

• the soldiers who died in all American conflicts.
• the soldiers who served in the military.
• the end of World War I.

The first Armistice Day was held in our country one year after the end of WWI in

• 1919
• 1920
• 1921

Armistice Day became a legal federal holiday to be celebrated every year in

• 1926
• 1938
• 1945

Armistice Day was changed to Veterans Day in 1945 because the government wanted to include the veterans of

• World War II
• Viet Nam War
• War in Iraq

Memorial Day is celebrated annually on May 5 and honors

• soldiers who died in the Civil War.
• soldiers who died in both world wars.
• soldiers who died in the service of their country.

The poppy became the symbol of remembrance of fallen soldiers because poppies grew wild

• among the graves in the battlefields of Flanders in France.
• everywhere crosses were erected over soldiers' graves.
• in the battlefields of Europe.

The poem, "In Flanders Fields" was written by

• a surgeon.
• an artillery gunner.
• a private delivering mail.

What motivated Lieutenant Colonel John McRae to scribble the poem?

• He had treated badly wounded and dying soldiers on the battlefield for 17 days.
• He had seen local wildflowers growing in the area where bodies were buried.
• Both of these.

The figurative language in the poem, "crosses row on row" actually means

• rows of markers telling soldiers where to line up.
• rows of graves of soldiers.
• rows of markers representing how many soldiers enlisted.