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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was British and was said to contribute to theater in Britain, basically being considered a national asset?
(a) Graves.
(b) Blunden.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Shakespeare.

2. The war began for the British in terms of language following the assassination of _____.
(a) Siegfried Sassoon.
(b) George Sherston.
(c) Thomas Hardy.
(d) Archduke Ferdinand.

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

4. In actuality, what was an eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides?
(a) Bomb shelter.
(b) Ypres Salient.
(c) Fort Alamo.
(d) Trench.

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

6. Within writings, there are many comparisons of soldiers as sheep being led where?
(a) Fields.
(b) Trenches.
(c) Slaughter.
(d) Sheerer.

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

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

9. What was the absence of women for some soldiers?
(a) Blessing.
(b) Problem.
(c) Relief.
(d) Curse.

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

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

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

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

14. What type of world is a soldier's world in the battlefield?
(a) Deadly.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Noisy.
(d) Womanless.

15. In most war literature, men portrayed as homosexual were also what?
(a) Worshipped.
(b) Unforgiven.
(c) Forgiven.
(d) Sacrificed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pastoral allusion is good in getting across what point?

2. What are there many things pastoral in the literature about?

3. In "Oh What a Literary War," the literature of the time is alive with _____.

4. Fussell points out that what country's soldiers exude moral superiority?

5. What soldiers are said to have a flair for theatrics?

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