View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Class distinctions applied in the military also as class determined their positions where?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Service.
(c) Battle.
(d) Rank.

2. What did the army give soldiers a life not complicated by?
(a) Fights.
(b) Women.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

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

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

5. In "But It Still Goes On," who do the men develop crushes on?
(a) Officers.
(b) Civilians.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Other soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Exposure," where do the men dream they are?

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

3. What type of bird is associated with sunset?

4. What did the rose mean to many people in England?

5. What does the speaker at an elegy become aware of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How are elegies based on the pastoral?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 706 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample