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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How did Graves describe a proposed assault that was called off?
(a) A mistake
(b) Well laid out
(c) Good planning
(d) Suicide
2. In what year do Graves and Nicholson return to Islip?
(a) 1930
(b) 1926
(c) 1923
(d) 1929
3. Why did the troops treat Graves with a chilly reception?
(a) His wealth
(b) German middle name
(c) His rank
(d) The fact that he had time away from the war
4. What did Graves purchase during his recovery period?
(a) Weapons
(b) Typewriter
(c) Boat ticket to America
(d) Cottage
5. How did Graves describe the enrollment at Oxford in October of 1919?
(a) Surprisingly busy
(b) Complete
(c) Barren
(d) Nearly deserted
6. How did Graves and Sassoon communicate?
(a) Through military channels
(b) Letters
(c) Visits
(d) They did not
7. Who refused to allow Graves to rejoin combat?
(a) Graves's mother
(b) Personal physician
(c) Regimental doctor
(d) Sassoon
8. Where was Graves sent by a strange accident of military orders?
(a) Ireland
(b) Germany
(c) France
(d) England
9. How long did Graves go untreated?
(a) 3 days
(b) 12 hours
(c) 24 hours
(d) 2 days
10. How many of Graves' children joined the Armed Forces during World War II?
(a) 1
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 4
11. In what year was Graves' second child born?
(a) 1922
(b) 1925
(c) 1923
(d) 1921
12. What did Graves become obsessed with happening?
(a) Idea of becoming a poet
(b) Idea of a gas attack
(c) Idea of peace
(d) Idea of being sent back to the trenches
13. How did Graves re-enter active duty after he recuperated?
(a) Recruiter
(b) Foreign affairs consultant
(c) Drill and musketry instructor
(d) Battle planner
14. What was the sentiment at Oxford in regard to the war?
(a) Anti-war
(b) Pro-war
(c) Anti- German
(d) Pro-soldier
15. What does it mean to serially publish a book?
(a) With support
(b) Privately
(c) Successively
(d) Without help
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Graves stationed after his first child was born?
2. What did Graves do after he left the service?
3. Where was Graves assigned since he was unable to return to combat?
4. When was Graves' first son born?
5. What present day term is equivalent to what Graves refers to as neurasthenia and illusion?
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