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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During this time, what was considered the main form of entertainment?
(a) Literature and the arts.
(b) Sports.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Classical music.

2. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?
(a) Siegfried Sassoon.
(b) Edmund Blunden.
(c) Herbert Read.
(d) Wilfred Owens.

3. What did the rose mean to many people in England?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Inspiration.

4. What is usually associated with the excitement of fighting in the infantry and on the battlefield?
(a) Sex.
(b) Masturbation.
(c) Rape.
(d) Looting.

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

6. Where were there two movements that coincided at the time of the Great War?
(a) Scotland.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

7. When Robert Graves enters the military, where is he first stationed?
(a) Laventie.
(b) Bethune.
(c) Somme.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does the soldier seek as a way of countering loneliness and terror in the battle field?
(a) Communication.
(b) Love.
(c) Sex.
(d) Affection.

14. At what age did Robert Grave's enter the military?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Sixteen.

15. What type of flower is associated with the pastoral?
(a) Poppies.
(b) Wildflowers.
(c) Petunias
(d) Daisies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is barbed wire discussed in terms of within English pastoral literature?

2. What happened to some of the new language adapted from the war?

3. Who is the author of "But It Still Goes On?"

4. Fussell demonstrates the use of pet names for cities and places. What word was used to refer to eat-apples?

5. Fussell mentions that some people thought that a certain language was not adequate enough to deal with war. Which language is it?

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