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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "But It Still Goes On?"
(a) Sassoon.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Prince.
(d) Graves.

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Fussell mentions that some people thought that a certain language was not adequate enough to deal with war. Which language is it?
(a) Spanish.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) German.

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

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

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

13. In "Exposure," where are the men freezing?
(a) Barracks.
(b) Trenches.
(c) Homes.
(d) Forest.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What type of bird is associated with dawn?

4. Who is the author of "Soldiers Bathing?"

5. The war changed the language and people tried to find terms that did what?

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