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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What soldiers are said to have a flair for theatrics?
(a) United States.
(b) German.
(c) British.
(d) France.

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

11. Who does Fussell mention is a very popular author of the time?
(a) Siegfried Sassoon.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) George Sherston.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

12. What did the army give soldiers a life not complicated by?
(a) Love.
(b) Sex.
(c) Women.
(d) Fights.

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

14. The war changed the language and people tried to find terms that did what?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Softened the effects of the realities of the war.
(c) Tried to focus on peace.
(d) Focused on forgiveness.

15. There are many literary links between war and what?
(a) Rape.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Looting.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pastoral allusion is good in getting across what point?

2. Fussell shows that some words, such as trench coat, stemmed from _____.

3. Who allowed the publication of Wilfred Owen's works after his death?

4. What is barbed wire discussed in terms of within English pastoral literature?

5. Class distinctions applied in the military also as class determined their positions where?

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