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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What Greek god was young male beauty exemplified by?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Uranian.
(c) Eros.
(d) Hercules.

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

5. Pastoral allusion is good in getting across what point?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Irony.
(d) Imagination.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Fussell points out that what country's soldiers exude moral superiority?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Britian.
(d) Scotland.

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

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

15. "Death was denoted as going west, going out of it, or going under." Fussell uses these to show examples of _____.
(a) Allusion.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Equivocation.
(d) Aliteration.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Exposure," where do the men dream they are?

3. Who does Robert Graves meet when he joins the First Battalion?

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

5. Who is the author of "Exposure"?

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