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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was issued in preparation for the Somme?
(a) New bullets
(b) New rifles
(c) New mortars
(d) New gas masks

2. What were the English exultant to receive their first shipment of?
(a) New weapons of great destruction
(b) Stokes' Mortars
(c) Mortar shells
(d) Rifles

3. Which of the following characters was killed in Chapter 18?
(a) Captain Richardson
(b) Dave Thomas
(c) Siegfried Sassoon
(d) Dick

4. How many men passed through the Royal Welch Fusiliers throughout the course of the war according to Graves?
(a) 10 thousand
(b) 800
(c) 100-120 thousand
(d) 15-20 thousand

5. Where was the offensive that Graves was sent forward to help prepare for?
(a) England
(b) Fricourt
(c) Somme
(d) Stockingholm

Short Answer Questions

1. What color were the ribbons the Royal Welch Fusiliers wore on the back of their dress tunics?

2. What did Graves do after he left the service?

3. For what were the Royal Welch Fusiliers notorious?

4. What injury did Graves suffer?

5. How many pre-1888 regiments did the Royal Welch Fusiliers hold?

(see the answer key)

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