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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are there many things pastoral in the literature about?
(a) Church.
(b) Authors.
(c) War.
(d) Illustrators.

3. What does the speaker at an elegy become aware of?
(a) His own sensitivity.
(b) His own empathy.
(c) His own creativity.
(d) His own mortality.

4. What happened to some of the new language adapted from the war?
(a) Still in use today.
(b) Died after World War I.
(c) Died after World War II.
(d) Lost with the Great Depression.

5. There are many literary links between war and what?
(a) Looting.
(b) Rape.
(c) Peace.
(d) Sexuality.

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

7. Who is the author of "Exposure"?
(a) David Jones.
(b) Herbert Reads
(c) Wilfred Owens
(d) Edmund Blunden

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

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

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

11. After Graves is released from the hospital the second time, where does Graves spend the remainder of the war?
(a) Germany.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Scotland.

12. Fussell demonstrates the troops making a vocabulary that developed and they used in everyday life. What word was used to refer to passing units on the road?
(a) Bugger.
(b) Etaples.
(c) Idiot Crossroads.
(d) Old Jerry.

13. Who allowed the publication of Wilfred Owen's works after his death?
(a) Publisher.
(b) Father.
(c) Commanding officer.
(d) Mother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is usually associated with the excitement of fighting in the infantry and on the battlefield?

2. During this time, what was considered the main form of entertainment?

3. The use of the pastoral in literature is an example of the model-like world of what?

4. Who are referred to as shepherds tending to their sheep?

5. In most war literature, men who were portrayed as homosexual had what type of hair?

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