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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the pre-war class system the most pronounced?

2. At what age did Robert Grave's enter the military?

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

4. What soldiers are said to have a flair for theatrics?

5. During this time, what was considered the main form of entertainment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was "Over There" and why are the sites of World War I and II distant to most Americans?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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