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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where was the pre-war class system the most pronounced?
(a) Germany.
(b) Britain.
(c) France.
(d) United States.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What style does Fussell show as being the direst way of saying what transpired, instead of using symbols or allusion?

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

3. What type of genre is the work "But It Still Goes On?"

4. Because of their secret, both of the main characters in "But It Still Goes On" are what?

5. After Graves is released from the hospital the second time, where does Graves spend the remainder of the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sorts of things are considered pastoral in the literature about the war?

2. How was there a debate on whether the English language was not adequate to deal with war?

3. Describe the two movements that coincided in England at the time the Great War occurred.

4. Describe Wilfred Owen's writings and his service time in the war.

5. What is Edmund Blunden's "Undertones of War" about?

6. Describe the way Fussell uses euphemisms to describe various things.

7. In Anthony Burgess' book The Wanting Seed, the main character is Tristram Fox, who is in the military and decides the war is a farce and a fake. What happens when Tristram serves on the front line?

8. How are flowers and the color red associated with the pastoral?

9. Describe Robert Graves military life in his book, Goodbye to All That.

10. Explain the relationship between soldier and officer as written about through poems and writings of the time.

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