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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the story "How Young They Died;" referred to in The Great War and Modern Memory?

2. By the end of 1917, which country had withdrawn from the war due to the Bolshevik Revolution?

3. According to this crucifixion story, who stood around until this soldier died?

4. In "How Young They Died," a soldier, after two weeks in France, feels how?

5. What were these trenches called?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the literature presented to illustrate the dichotomy between the officers and the soldiers?

2. What is the title of the second volume of Sassoon's trilogy, and what is the second volume about?

3. What was wrong with the British commander Sir Douglas Haig's war planning?

4. What types of rumors and myths surrounded the number three?

5. Fussell shows an example of a soldier from a book by Stuart Cloete. In Cloete's book, How Young They Died, how does the soldier view time?

6. What has happened to the area by the Somme River where a fierce battle in the war took place?

7. Rumors of most wars concern deserters. What do these rumors say?

8. What is the myth of the ruined basilica with a statue of the Virgin and Child on top in Albert, France?

9. What was the purpose of Siegfried Sassoon's trilogy?

10. What happens to soldiers when they spend a lot of time in the trenches during war time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze what is meant by people feeling they have a duty toward the war. Why should people have this feeling? Is this a patriotic duty to always have or should we only have this feeling at wartime? In your writing, talk about Wilfred Owen's and Thomas Pynchon's writings, specifically, Gravity's Rainbow.

Essay Topic 2

Gardens are beautiful. Where have gardens always been an important factor? Why have gardens always been important here? Wilfred Owen's "Exposure" is one example of gardens and flowers. What is "Exposure" about? Name three other authors and their works that talk about gardens and explain how these works can be associated with war literature.

Essay Topic 3

Fussell chooses many writers to help give examples. Pick one poet and one other writer Fussell mentions in wartime literature. Once the poet and writer have been chosen, write a biography on each of these writers, focusing on why they chose to write in the manner they did and why they chose their subject(s).

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