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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. At what age did Robert Grave's enter the military?
3. Fussell demonstrates the use of pet names for cities and places. What word was used to refer to eat-apples?
4. Fussell shows that some words, such as trench coat, stemmed from _____.
5. After Graves is released from the hospital the second time, where does Graves spend the remainder of the war?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are elegies based on the pastoral?
2. Describe Wilfred Owen's writings and his service time in the war.
3. In Anthony Burgess' book The Wanting Seed, the main character is Tristram Fox, who is in the military and decides the war is a farce and a fake. What happens when Tristram serves on the front line?
4. How are flowers and the color red associated with the pastoral?
5. What was "Over There" and why are the sites of World War I and II distant to most Americans?
6. Describe Robert Graves military life in his book, Goodbye to All That.
7. Describe the way Fussell uses euphemisms to describe various things.
8. How are sheep and shepherds a part of things pastoral and used in literature?
9. How is bathing soldiers a part of wartime literature?
10. How can homosexuality be seen as a problem as a soldier?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Fussell tells the story of the Canadian Crucifixion.
Part 1) Describe the story of the Canadian Crucifixion using as much detail as possible. Who stood watch as the Canadian was being crucified? What was the Canadian being crucified with? Where was the Canadian being crucified? Why was the Canadian being crucified?
Part 2) There are different versions of the Canadian Crucifixion. Why are there different versions of the story?
Part 3) Name any writers who use the Canadian Crucifixion as symbolism for their writing and why they use it.
Essay Topic 2
"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 3
Discuss Frye's Theory of Modes. How many modes are there and what are they? Who are the characters and what are they doing? Why are the characters acting in the manner they are? What country does this work speak of and what foods are mentioned?
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