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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 gas masks
(b) New mortars
(c) New rifles
(d) New bullets

2. What color were the ribbons the Royal Welch Fusiliers wore on the back of their dress tunics?
(a) Black
(b) Purple
(c) Orange
(d) Crimson

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What injury did Graves suffer?

2. What was the name of Graves' first child?

3. Where was the offensive that Graves was sent forward to help prepare for?

4. What did Graves believe he contracted?

5. Why did Graves' commanding officer refuse to honor his request to resign his commission?

(see the answer key)

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