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

2. Who was Robert Graves Lieutenant when he joins the First Battalion?
(a) George Sherston.
(b) George Adams.
(c) David Thomas.
(d) Anthony Burgess.

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

4. There are many literary links between war and what?
(a) Rape.
(b) Peace.
(c) Looting.
(d) Sexuality.

5. What type of genre is the work "But It Still Goes On?"
(a) Poetry.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Non-fiction.
(d) Comedy.

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. One movement that occurred in England at the time of the Great War promoted a belief that education should consist of classical and English _____.

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

4. In "Exposure," where are the men freezing?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. What is so special about blond males in most wartime literature? Name some authors who wrote about blond males.

9. What are the two reasons Fussell believes the British soldiers have a flair for theatrics?

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

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