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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the absence of women for some soldiers?
(a) Blessing.
(b) Curse.
(c) Relief.
(d) Problem.
2. Pilgrim's Progress is mentioned quite a bit with its references and allusions to _____.
(a) War.
(b) Germany.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) England.
3. 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) Seriously injured.
(b) Dies.
(c) Discharged.
(d) Suffers a mental breakdown.
4. What type of genre is the work "But It Still Goes On?"
(a) Comedy.
(b) Non-fiction.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Poetry.
5. When Robert Graves enters the military, where is he first stationed?
(a) Somme.
(b) Laventie.
(c) Bethune.
(d) No answers are correct.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "But It Still Goes On," who do the men develop crushes on?
2. Where were there two movements that coincided at the time of the Great War?
3. What happened to some of the new language adapted from the war?
4. What does the soldier seek as a way of countering loneliness and terror in the battle field?
5. In most war literature, men portrayed as homosexual were also what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How can homosexuality be seen as a problem as a soldier?
2. Give examples of words or phrases that stemmed from the war.
3. How have gardens always been an important factor in English literature and the word pastoral applies to war literature?
4. What is so special about blond males in most wartime literature? Name some authors who wrote about blond males.
5. Describe Robert Graves military life in his book, Goodbye to All That.
6. In Anthony Burgess' book The Wanting Seed, the main character is Tristram Fox, who is in the military and decides the war is a farce and a fake. What happens when Tristram serves on the front line?
7. How are sheep and shepherds a part of things pastoral and used in literature?
8. How is bathing soldiers a part of wartime literature?
9. Explain the relationship between soldier and officer as written about through poems and writings of the time.
10. Describe Wilfred Owen's writings and his service time in the war.
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