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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. For what were the Royal Welch Fusiliers notorious?
(a) Participating in four of the hardest fought victories
(b) Being disgraced by the cavalry
(c) Surrending to the Germans
(d) Supporting the Navy

3. Why was the Royal Welch Fusiliers regiment not disgraced when they surrendered at Yorktown?
(a) There was no physical record that they surrendered
(b) All twenty-nine regiments did not surrender
(c) Other regiments surrendered before they did
(d) They were abandoned by the Navy

4. Why did Graves' commanding officer refuse to honor his request to resign his commission?
(a) He needed him to continue to train new soldiers
(b) He wanted him to take over his command
(c) He did not like Graves and wanted him to suffer
(d) He wanted him to perform in the Battalion theatrical

5. In what month did Graves rejoin the 1st battalion?
(a) November
(b) April
(c) July
(d) March

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Graves plagued by as he entered school at Oxford?

3. What injury did Graves suffer?

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

5. How many men passed through the Royal Welch Fusiliers throughout the course of the war according to Graves?

(see the answer key)

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