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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the soldier seek as a way of countering loneliness and terror in the battle field?
(a) Love.
(b) Communication.
(c) Sex.
(d) Affection.

2. What was the purpose of the attack on Edmund Blunden at Ypres?
(a) Injure him.
(b) Frighten him away.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Haunt him.

3. Who are the two main characters of "But It Still Goes On?"
(a) James and Katherine.
(b) David and Charlotte.
(c) Jack and Diane.
(d) John and Lisa.

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

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

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

7. What are there many things pastoral in the literature about?
(a) Authors.
(b) Church.
(c) War.
(d) Illustrators.

8. In "Oh What a Literary War," the literature of the time is alive with _____.
(a) Allusion.
(b) Realism.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Imagination.

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

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

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

12. What were people placed on the social scale for in the most pronounced pre-war class system?
(a) Communication skills.
(b) Money.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Education.

13. What type of flower is associated with the pastoral?
(a) Daisies.
(b) Poppies.
(c) Wildflowers.
(d) Petunias

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

15. In "But It Still Goes On," who do the men develop crushes on?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Officers.
(c) Civilians.
(d) Other soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In actuality, what was an eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides?

2. What was the absence of women for some soldiers?

3. 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?

4. Sheep and shepherds by themselves are not pastoral. What might you add to them to make them pastoral?

5. Who was British and was said to contribute to theater in Britain, basically being considered a national asset?

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