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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the absence of women for some soldiers?
2. In most war literature, men who were portrayed as homosexual had what type of hair?
3. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?
4. In "Oh What a Literary War," the literature of the time is alive with _____.
5. What were people placed on the social scale for in the most pronounced pre-war class system?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How are elegies based on the pastoral?
3. What is so special about blond males in most wartime literature? Name some authors who wrote about blond males.
4. What is Graves "But It Still Goes On" about?
5. Give some examples of how writers associate the military with theater?
6. In relation to love, explain the soldier's world in the battlefield?
7. How is bathing soldiers a part of wartime literature?
8. How are flowers and the color red associated with the pastoral?
9. How have gardens always been an important factor in English literature and the word pastoral applies to war literature?
10. What was "Over There" and why are the sites of World War I and II distant to most Americans?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
"There were many rumors and myths surrounding the number three." Why were there many rumors and myths surrounding the number three? How does the number three occur in the methodology of the war? How did the military use of the number three feed many myths within literature? Give examples from Fussell's work.
Essay Topic 2
Fussell says "the Great War was the most hideous and the most ironic." Give specific examples from the story on how Fussell, either by himself or through the use of other author's examples, shows how the Great War was full of irony.
Essay Topic 3
"A rumor of most wars concerns deserters." Who is a deserter? Does one desire to become a deserter? What causes one to be a deserter? How does one become a deserter? Is a deserter only associated with a war or do they exist at other times? What do you think is the true meaning of the quote, "A rumor of most wars concerns deserters?"
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