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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is usually associated with the excitement of fighting in the infantry and on the battlefield?

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

3. Who was Robert Graves Lieutenant when he joins the First Battalion?

4. Where does Graves study English literature?

5. In most war literature, men who were portrayed as homosexual had what type of hair?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How can homosexuality be seen as a problem as a soldier?

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

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

5. Give examples of words or phrases that stemmed from the war.

6. How have gardens always been an important factor in English literature and the word pastoral applies to war literature?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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