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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. Fussell points out that what country's soldiers exude moral superiority?

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

3. In most war literature, men who were portrayed as homosexual had what type of hair?

4. When Robert Graves enters the military, where is he first stationed?

5. The eighteen square mile enclosure in which troops were trapped and subject to shelling from all sides is Fussell's example of _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. How are flowers and the color red associated with the pastoral?

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

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

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

5. What types of Anglicized and pet names did the troops make for cities and places?

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

7. What sorts of things are considered pastoral in the literature about the war?

8. Give examples of words or phrases that stemmed from the war.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"There were many rumors and myths surrounding the number three." Why were there many rumors and myths surrounding the number three? How does the number three occur in the methodology of the war? How did the military use of the number three feed many myths within literature? Give examples from Fussell's work.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Throughout Fussel's writings, he shows the harshness of war. What are some of the factors that makes war harsh? Do the harsh factors affect just the military, or does it affect civilians as well? Be specific and give examples from the writing.

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