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CLEP Western Civ II

Category - Interwar

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The experience of World War I remained visible in public culture during the interwar years through memoirs, including the account of nursing written by which of the following authors?
  1. Sigfried Sassoon
  2. Radclyffe Hall
  3. Helen Zena Smith
  4. Vera Brittain
  5. Jane Austen
Explanation
Answer: D - Vera Brittain's memoir, Testament of Youth (1939), detailed her life as a volunteer nurse in World War I. Hers was one of numerous memoirs about the war to be published in the 1920s and 1930s. Radclyffe Hall wrote a fictional account of ambulance drivers in The Well of Loneliness, marking another means by which women writers brought their perceptions of the war into popular literature.
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