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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Graves believe he contracted?
(a) Pneumonia
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Plague
(d) Spanish influenza

4. What did Graves do after he left the service?
(a) Moved to America
(b) Stayed home with his daughter
(c) Went into the theatre
(d) Became a student at Oxford

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what month did Graves rejoin the 1st battalion?

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

4. Which of the following characters was killed in Chapter 18?

5. Why was the Royal Welch Fusiliers regiment not disgraced when they surrendered at Yorktown?

(see the answer key)

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