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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. In most war literature, men portrayed as homosexual were also what?
(a) Sacrificed.
(b) Forgiven.
(c) Unforgiven.
(d) Worshipped.

2. Fussell mentions that some people thought that a certain language was not adequate enough to deal with war. Which language is it?
(a) German.
(b) English.
(c) French.
(d) Spanish.

3. What is barbed wire discussed in terms of within English pastoral literature?
(a) Roses.
(b) Gardens.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Thickets.

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

5. Who is the author of "Soldiers Bathing?"
(a) Brooke.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Graves.
(d) Prince.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "Death was denoted as going west, going out of it, or going under." Fussell uses these to show examples of _____.

3. In actuality, what was an eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides?

4. When Graves recovers, he returns to his unit. Where is his unit stationed?

5. Fussell demonstrates the troops making a vocabulary that developed and they used in everyday life. What word was used to refer to passing units on the road?

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 Graves "But It Still Goes On" about?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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