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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. Shortly after Graves is released from the hospital the second time, he gets married. What month and year does he get married?
(a) January 1918.
(b) January 1919.
(c) December 1919.
(d) December 1918.

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

3. Who does Fussell mention is a very popular author of the time?
(a) Siegfried Sassoon.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) Thomas Hardy.
(d) George Sherston.

4. "Death was denoted as going west, going out of it, or going under." Fussell uses these to show examples of _____.
(a) Aliteration.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Equivocation.

5. Who is the author of "Exposure"?
(a) Edmund Blunden
(b) Wilfred Owens
(c) Herbert Reads
(d) David Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fussell shows that some words, such as trench coat, stemmed from _____.

2. What does the soldier seek as a way of countering loneliness and terror in the battle field?

3. Where were there two movements that coincided at the time of the Great War?

4. Within writings, there are many comparisons of soldiers as sheep being led where?

5. In "But It Still Goes On," who do the men develop crushes on?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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