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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 are there many things pastoral in the literature about?

2. In "Exposure," where do the men dream they are?

3. What happened to some of the new language adapted from the war?

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

5. Pilgrim's Progress is mentioned quite a bit with its references and allusions to _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. How are elegies based on the pastoral?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fussell says "the Great War was the most hideous and the most ironic." Give specific examples from the story on how Fussell, either by himself or through the use of other author's examples, shows how the Great War was full of irony.

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

Fussell writes about the dichotomy between soldiers and officers in the military. Does this dichotomy cause tension between the officers and soldiers? List any works and authors who speak of this dichotomy and what they say about the dichotomy.

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