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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what did Graves resign during his final year at school?
(a) Charterhouse
(b) The Carthusian
(c) Officers' Training Corps
(d) Boxing club

2. What would the students who passed the examination go on to do?
(a) Become translators at embassies
(b) Work in the United States
(c) Become the future university instructors
(d) Offer English instruction at primary and secondary schools

3. Which of the following literary icons did not die in rapid succession while Graves attended Oxford?
(a) Mallory
(b) Rivers
(c) Eliot
(d) Raleigh

4. Which of the following classes of people ranked lowest within the social code that Graves describes?
(a) Serfs
(b) Women
(c) Immigrant workers
(d) Bourgeoisie

5. What was Sassoon treated for at Craiglockhart War Hospital?
(a) Insanity
(b) Bullet wounds
(c) Neurasthenia
(d) Pneumonia

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Graves re-enter active duty after he recuperated?

2. When did Graves begin to feel shame about his German heritage?

3. How did Graves feel about eighteenth century poetry?

4. Which of the following characters opened a shop for about six months and did a brisk business in groceries and goods?

5. What did the officers discuss that were purported to have been committed by specific units or nationalities?

(see the answer key)

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