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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 demonstrates the use of pet names for cities and places. What word was used to refer to eat-apples?

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

3. What was the absence of women for some soldiers?

4. Where were there two movements that coincided at the time of the Great War?

5. In "Oh What a Literary War," the literature of the time is alive with _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. How are sheep and shepherds a part of things pastoral and used in literature?

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

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

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

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

6. How was there a debate on whether the English language was not adequate to deal with war?

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

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

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

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

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 2

Explain how Fussell describes homosexuals as portrayed in literature. Include references to the specific authors and works Fussell mentions, and explain how this all connects to wartime.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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