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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of soldiers are considered vulnerable in wartime literature?
(a) Injured soldiers.
(b) Weak soldiers.
(c) Naked soldiers.
(d) Bathing soldiers.

2. Where was the pre-war class system the most pronounced?
(a) United States.
(b) Britain.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

3. Who was British and was said to contribute to theater in Britain, basically being considered a national asset?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Graves.
(d) Blunden.

4. In "Oh What a Literary War," the literature of the time is alive with _____.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Realism.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Allusion.

5. What type of genre is the work "But It Still Goes On?"
(a) Comedy.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Non-fiction.

6. What type of bird is associated with sunset?
(a) Larks.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Robins.
(d) Nightingales.

7. Who was Robert Graves Lieutenant when he joins the First Battalion?
(a) Anthony Burgess.
(b) David Thomas.
(c) George Sherston.
(d) George Adams.

8. Who is the author of "Soldiers Bathing?"
(a) Graves.
(b) Brooke.
(c) Douglas.
(d) Prince.

9. Who does Fussell mention is a very popular author of the time?
(a) Evelyn Waugh.
(b) George Sherston.
(c) Thomas Hardy.
(d) Siegfried Sassoon.

10. In "Exposure," where do the men dream they are?
(a) Flower garden.
(b) Grassier ditches.
(c) Home.
(d) With family.

11. What do some writers like George Adam's associate the military with?
(a) Myth.
(b) Literature.
(c) Ritual.
(d) Theater.

12. In "But It Still Goes On," who do the men develop crushes on?
(a) Civilians.
(b) Other soldiers.
(c) Officers.
(d) All answers are correct.

13. In most war literature, men who were portrayed as homosexual had what type of hair?
(a) Bald.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blond.

14. Shortly after Graves is released from the hospital the second time, he gets married. What month and year does he get married?
(a) December 1919.
(b) January 1919.
(c) December 1918.
(d) January 1918.

15. In Robert Graves work, Goodbye to All That, Graves tells the story of his own life. In battle his friend is killed in action. What happens to Graves while in battle?
(a) Suffers a mental breakdown.
(b) Dies.
(c) Discharged.
(d) Seriously injured.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fussell shows that some words, such as trench coat, stemmed from _____.

2. Class distinctions applied in the military also as class determined their positions where?

3. What did the rose mean to many people in England?

4. Pilgrim's Progress is mentioned quite a bit with its references and allusions to _____.

5. What does the speaker at an elegy become aware of?

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