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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Graves born?
(a) 1910
(b) 1850
(c) 1900
(d) 1895

2. What did Graves consider himself?
(a) Poet and writer
(b) Singer
(c) Educator
(d) Nobelman

3. With whom did Graves develop an amorous, but not physically erotic, relationship?
(a) Dick
(b) Raymond
(c) Amalie
(d) Nevill

4. What position did Graves hold during his final year at Charterhouse?
(a) Writer
(b) Assistant editor
(c) Assistant Teacher
(d) Instructor

5. How did Graves' unit travel?
(a) Train and foot
(b) Foot only
(c) Train only
(d) Truck, train and foot

6. Which of the following describes the relationship between Graves and George Mallory?
(a) Enemies
(b) Good friends
(c) Sexual partners
(d) Disdain

7. What were many of the students at Charterhouse impressed with in regards to Graves?
(a) Mental Abilities
(b) Poetic skills
(c) Physical ability
(d) Academic skills

8. How did most of the students at Charterhouse feel about the war with Germany?
(a) Surprising
(b) Demeaning
(c) Inevitable
(d) Avoidable

9. What disgusted Graves that was a somewhat common practice among the students at Charterhouse?
(a) Homosexuality
(b) Hazing
(c) Hatred of all things German
(d) Bullying

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

11. Which of the following best defines the term untoward when used to describe Jack Graves' school chum?
(a) Inappropriate
(b) Unlucky
(c) Pessimistic
(d) Disadvantagous

12. Where was Graves posted when he was transferred to the Royal Welch Fusiliers?
(a) 4th Battalion
(b) 2nd Battalion
(c) 1st Battalion
(d) 3rd Battalion

13. When did Graves begin to feel shame about his German heritage?
(a) When his relatives committed crimes
(b) As the great war approached
(c) When he was home in England
(d) After he aged and reflected back on his childhood

14. How long was Graves in Harfleur 'Bull Ring'?
(a) 4 weeks
(b) 8 weeks
(c) 10 weeks
(d) 5 weeks

15. From what disease did Robert suffer at the young age of approximately four-and-one-half?
(a) Scarlet fever
(b) Encephalitis
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Polio

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How far back is Graves able to trace his ancestral history?

3. What sport did Graves take up to help him be left alone by school bullies?

4. What was issued in preparation for the Somme?

5. After the Great War, what did Graves insist he was as far as his heritage was concerned?

(see the answer keys)

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