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

2. Within writings, there are many comparisons of soldiers as sheep being led where?
(a) Fields.
(b) Trenches.
(c) Slaughter.
(d) Sheerer.

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

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

5. Who are referred to as shepherds tending to their sheep?
(a) President.
(b) Priests.
(c) Bishops.
(d) Generals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is looting usually associated with?

3. What did the army give soldiers a life not complicated by?

4. What were people placed on the social scale for in the most pronounced pre-war class system?

5. What type of flower is associated with the pastoral?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Give some examples of how writers associate the military with theater?

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

6. What types of Anglicized and pet names did the troops make for cities and places?

7. How are sheep and shepherds a part of things pastoral and used in literature?

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

9. Explain how the British pre-war class system was the most pronounced in Europe.

10. 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?

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