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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. What author writes showing the use of an elegy based on the pastoral?
2. Class distinctions applied in the military also as class determined their positions where?
3. One movement that occurred in England at the time of the Great War promoted a belief that education should consist of classical and English _____.
4. In most war literature, men who were portrayed as homosexual had what type of hair?
5. In Robert Graves work, Goodbye to All That, Graves tells the story of his own life. In battle his friend is killed in action. What happens to Graves while in battle?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Robert Graves military life in his book, Goodbye to All That.
2. In relation to love, explain the soldier's world in the battlefield?
3. What is so special about blond males in most wartime literature? Name some authors who wrote about blond males.
4. Explain the relationship between soldier and officer as written about through poems and writings of the time.
5. What is Graves "But It Still Goes On" about?
6. Describe Wilfred Owen's writings and his service time in the war.
7. What is Edmund Blunden's "Undertones of War" about?
8. Give examples of words or phrases that stemmed from the war.
9. Describe the two movements that coincided in England at the time the Great War occurred.
10. How are sheep and shepherds a part of things pastoral and used in literature?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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).
Essay Topic 2
"War literature is alive with allusion." What is allusion? Name five authors who have written war literature with allusion. List the genre the authors write in and explain the allusion each author is showing.
Essay Topic 3
Explain how Fussell describes homosexuals as portrayed in literature. Include references to the specific authors and works Fussell mentions, and explain how this all connects to wartime.
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