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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following parts was not injured on Graves?
(a) Chest
(b) Ankle
(c) Face
(d) Thigh

2. What did Graves and Sassoon spend many hours together doing?
(a) Correcting errors in reporting
(b) Planning escape from the war
(c) Finding a way to escape the war
(d) Writing poetry

3. Who helped Graves locate housing in Egypt?
(a) Ex -soldiers
(b) Relatives
(c) Politicians
(d) University staff

4. What did Graves become obsessed with happening?
(a) Idea of being sent back to the trenches
(b) Idea of a gas attack
(c) Idea of peace
(d) Idea of becoming a poet

5. How did Graves consider the war?
(a) A brave effort
(b) Understandable and necessary
(c) Clear and well run
(d) Evil and pointless

6. How did Nancy Nicholson see all social problems?
(a) The fault of religion
(b) Caused by the war
(c) To be solved by men
(d) In terms of women's rights

7. Who continues to live with Graves?
(a) Lawrence
(b) Nichole
(c) Nicholson
(d) His father

8. What nickname was Siegfried Sassoon given?
(a) Silly Siegfried
(b) Mad Max
(c) Insane Jack
(d) Mad Jack

9. Where did the ship stop on the way to Egypt?
(a) Gibraltar
(b) Italy
(c) Greece
(d) Sicily

10. How did Graves and Sassoon communicate?
(a) Visits
(b) Letters
(c) Through military channels
(d) They did not

11. What does Graves offer as an apology for his rapid abandonment of his teaching post in Cairo?
(a) Copies of grade reports
(b) Transcripts of audio discussions
(c) Three poems
(d) Three essays

12. Where did Graves move toward the end of Chapter 28?
(a) Village house that he rented from his mother
(b) Cottage
(c) Back to Germany with his relatives
(d) Townhouse in the city

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

14. What group recruited Sassoon into its cause?
(a) German sympathizers
(b) Anti-war pacifists
(c) Pro-war patriots
(d) Literary writers

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What present day term is equivalent to what Graves refers to as neurasthenia and illusion?

2. Which of the following characters was the principal medical officer in service at the Craiglockhart War Hospital?

3. What happened to Graves as he completed his work as a drill and musketry instructor?

4. Who tutored Graves during his latter years at Oxford?

5. What was the last year Graves attended Oxford?

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