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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Robert Graves meet when he joins the First Battalion?
(a) Anthony Burgess.
(b) George Adams.
(c) Siegfried Sassoon.
(d) George Sherston.

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

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

4. What style does Fussell show as being the direst way of saying what transpired, instead of using symbols or allusion?
(a) Antithetical.
(b) Ethical.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Unethical.

5. 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) Old Jerry.
(c) Etaples.
(d) Idiot Crossroads.

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

7. What is barbed wire discussed in terms of within English pastoral literature?
(a) Thickets.
(b) Gardens.
(c) Roses.
(d) Flowers.

8. 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) Trench.
(c) Fort Alamo.
(d) Ypres Salient.

9. Fussell shows that some words, such as trench coat, stemmed from _____.
(a) War.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Trenches.

10. After he returns to his unit, what does Graves get sent to the hospital for?
(a) Appendicitus.
(b) Bronchitis.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) Severe fever.

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

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

13. What type of genre is the work "But It Still Goes On?"
(a) Non-fiction.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Fiction.

14. The Imperial War Graves Commission ruled that everyone is considered equal, including who?
(a) Dead.
(b) Civilians.
(c) Veterans.
(d) Military.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the pre-war class system the most pronounced?

2. What did the rose mean to many people in England?

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

4. In "But It Still Goes On," who do the men develop crushes on?

5. The eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides is Fussell's example of _____.

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