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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. After Graves is released from the hospital the second time, where does Graves spend the remainder of the war?

2. What type of bird is associated with dawn?

3. What type of world is a soldier's world in the battlefield?

4. Who is the author of "Soldiers Bathing?"

5. What style does Fussell show as being the direst way of saying what transpired, instead of using symbols or allusion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain the relationship between soldier and officer as written about through poems and writings of the time.

5. How are elegies based on the pastoral?

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

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

8. Describe Robert Graves military life in his book, Goodbye to All That.

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

10. How is bathing soldiers a part of wartime 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

"A rumor of most wars concerns deserters." Who is a deserter? Does one desire to become a deserter? What causes one to be a deserter? How does one become a deserter? Is a deserter only associated with a war or do they exist at other times? What do you think is the true meaning of the quote, "A rumor of most wars concerns deserters?"

Essay Topic 3

"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.

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