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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. During this time, what was considered the main form of entertainment?

2. Who are the two main characters of "But It Still Goes On?"

3. What were people placed on the social scale for in the most pronounced pre-war class system?

4. There are many literary links between war and what?

5. What soldiers are said to have a flair for theatrics?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is so special about blond males in most wartime literature? Name some authors who wrote about blond males.

3. What are the two reasons Fussell believes the British soldiers have a flair for theatrics?

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

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

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

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

8. How are elegies based on the pastoral?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fussell states there are some writers who associate the theater with the military. How and why do the writers make these associations? Give five examples of how the military is associated with the theater; giving titles and authors of works addressing this topic if not specifically from Fussell.

Essay Topic 2

Fussell states that troops also had some other uses of the vernacular. What is vernacular and how does it apply to everyday language? Are there many different vernaculars or is there only one vernacular? Explain. Why was a vernacular used? Give five examples of the uses of vernacular.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the connection between war and the pastoral as shown in the book. What examples does Fussell give? What connection do other authors mentioned by Fussell provide between the military, war, and the pastoral?

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