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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Shortly after Graves is released from the hospital the second time, he gets married. What month and year does he get married?
(a) January 1919.
(b) December 1918.
(c) January 1918.
(d) December 1919.

3. Class distinctions applied in the military also as class determined their positions where?
(a) Battle.
(b) Rank.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Service.

4. Sheep and shepherds by themselves are not pastoral. What might you add to them to make them pastoral?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Birds.
(c) Songs.
(d) Gardens.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did the rose mean to many people in England?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Inspiration.

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One movement that occurred in England at the time of the Great War promoted a belief that education should consist of classical and English _____.

2. What was the purpose of the attack on Edmund Blunden at Ypres?

3. Who does Fussell mention is a very popular author of the time?

4. In most war literature, men portrayed as homosexual were also what?

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

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