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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. Because of their secret, both of the main characters in "But It Still Goes On" are what?
(a) Sad.
(b) Excited.
(c) Afraid.
(d) Nervous.

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

3. What Greek god was young male beauty exemplified by?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Eros.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Uranian.

4. What is looting usually associated with?
(a) War.
(b) Rape.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Peace.

5. When Graves recovers, he returns to his unit. Where is his unit stationed?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Bethune.
(c) Somme.
(d) Laventie.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?

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

5. Shortly after Graves is released from the hospital the second time, he gets married. What month and year does he get married?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Graves "But It Still Goes On" about?

2. How is bathing soldiers a part of wartime literature?

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

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

5. In relation to love, explain the soldier's world in the battlefield?

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

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

8. How are elegies based on the pastoral?

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

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

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