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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Because of their secret, both of the main characters in "But It Still Goes On" are what?
(a) Afraid.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Sad.
(d) Excited.

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

3. What were people placed on the social scale for in the most pronounced pre-war class system?
(a) Money.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Communication skills.
(d) Education.

4. The use of the pastoral in literature is an example of the model-like world of what?
(a) German writing.
(b) French writing.
(c) English writing.
(d) Scotish writing.

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

6. What was the purpose of the attack on Edmund Blunden at Ypres?
(a) Injure him.
(b) Frighten him away.
(c) Haunt him.
(d) Kill him.

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

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

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

10. Sheep and shepherds by themselves are not pastoral. What might you add to them to make them pastoral?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Gardens.
(c) Songs.
(d) Birds.

11. The eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides is Fussell's example of _____.
(a) Aliteration.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Equivocation.

12. When Graves recovers, he returns to his unit. Where is his unit stationed?
(a) Laventie.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Bethune.
(d) Somme.

13. What is looting usually associated with?
(a) Peace.
(b) War.
(c) Rape.
(d) Sexuality.

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

15. Where does Graves study English literature?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Berkely.
(c) Yale.
(d) Oxford.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which cemeteries did the traditional social distinctions not apply?

5. What type of bird is associated with sunset?

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