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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many pre-1888 regiments did the Royal Welch Fusiliers hold?
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 5

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

3. 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

4. Where was Graves stationed after his first child was born?
(a) Oswestry
(b) London
(c) Somme
(d) Limerick

5. What were the ribbons which the Royal Welch Fusiliers wore on the back of their dress tunics called?
(a) Honorable
(b) Dress
(c) Service
(d) Flash

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What injury did Graves suffer?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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