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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What illness did Graves develop after a few weeks at his new assignment?
(a) Abscessed tooth
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Pneumonia
(d) Blood infection

3. In what year was the armistice announced?
(a) 1920
(b) 1918
(c) 1915
(d) 1916

4. 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

5. In late July during the barrage of artillery fire that Graves' company experienced, about how many of his men were killed instantly?
(a) Three fourths
(b) One half
(c) Two thirds
(d) One third

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

7. In what year was the epilogue added to this novel?
(a) 1950
(b) 1948
(c) 1960
(d) 1957

8. Who visited Graves on the ship before he departed for Egypt?
(a) Sassoon
(b) Eliot
(c) Lawrence
(d) Catherine

9. Why did Graves' commanding officer refuse to honor his request to resign his commission?
(a) He wanted him to take over his command
(b) He needed him to continue to train new soldiers
(c) He wanted him to perform in the Battalion theatrical
(d) He did not like Graves and wanted him to suffer

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

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

12. When were Graves and Nicholson married?
(a) January 1918
(b) April 1918
(c) February 1919
(d) March 1917

13. Where was Graves sent to a hospital to receive treatment?
(a) Rousen
(b) England
(c) Liverpool
(d) Somme

14. In what year did the Spanish Civil War begin?
(a) 1936
(b) 1932
(c) 1940
(d) 1930

15. Who refused to allow Graves to rejoin combat?
(a) Personal physician
(b) Regimental doctor
(c) Sassoon
(d) Graves's mother

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Graves leave Majorca, Spain?

2. What nickname was Siegfried Sassoon given?

3. Where was Graves sent by a strange accident of military orders?

4. What did Graves become obsessed with happening?

5. Who continues to live with Graves?

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