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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. During this time, what was considered the main form of entertainment?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Classical music.
(c) Literature and the arts.
(d) Sports.

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

3. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?
(a) Herbert Read.
(b) Siegfried Sassoon.
(c) Edmund Blunden.
(d) Wilfred Owens.

4. After Graves is released from the hospital the second time, where does Graves spend the remainder of the war?
(a) Scotland.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

5. Who allowed the publication of Wilfred Owen's works after his death?
(a) Father.
(b) Publisher.
(c) Commanding officer.
(d) Mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Graves recovers, he returns to his unit. Where is his unit stationed?

3. Pilgrim's Progress is mentioned quite a bit with its references and allusions to _____.

4. What happened to some of the new language adapted from the war?

5. Who does Fussell mention is a very popular author of the time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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