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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Robert Graves work, Goodbye to All That, Graves tells the story of his own life. In battle his friend is killed in action. What happens to Graves while in battle?
(a) Dies.
(b) Discharged.
(c) Suffers a mental breakdown.
(d) Seriously injured.

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

3. Pilgrim's Progress is mentioned quite a bit with its references and allusions to _____.
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) War.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

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

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

6. Who is the author of "Soldiers Bathing?"
(a) Graves.
(b) Brooke.
(c) Douglas.
(d) Prince.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What happened to some of the new language adapted from the war?
(a) Died after World War I.
(b) Lost with the Great Depression.
(c) Still in use today.
(d) Died after World War II.

13. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?
(a) Siegfried Sassoon.
(b) Edmund Blunden.
(c) Herbert Read.
(d) Wilfred Owens.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Robert Graves enters the military, where is he first stationed?

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

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

4. Who is the author of "But It Still Goes On?"

5. Who are referred to as shepherds tending to their sheep?

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