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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. Who does Robert Graves meet when he joins the First Battalion?
(a) George Sherston.
(b) Anthony Burgess.
(c) George Adams.
(d) Siegfried Sassoon.

2. Who are the two main characters of "But It Still Goes On?"
(a) James and Katherine.
(b) David and Charlotte.
(c) John and Lisa.
(d) Jack and Diane.

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

4. What are there many things pastoral in the literature about?
(a) Authors.
(b) Illustrators.
(c) War.
(d) Church.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Fussell demonstrates the use of pet names for cities and places. What word was used to refer to eat-apples?

3. There are many literary links between war and what?

4. After Graves is released from the hospital the second time, where does Graves spend the remainder of the war?

5. What was the absence of women for some soldiers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How was there a debate on whether the English language was not adequate to deal with war?

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

6. What is Graves "But It Still Goes On" about?

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

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

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

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

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