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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. To whom did Lawrence introduce Graves?
(a) Ezra Pound
(b) John Masefield
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Robert Nichols
2. How did Graves and Sassoon communicate?
(a) Letters
(b) They did not
(c) Visits
(d) Through military channels
3. Where was Graves sent to a hospital to receive treatment?
(a) Liverpool
(b) Somme
(c) England
(d) Rousen
4. How did Nancy Nicholson see all social problems?
(a) The fault of religion
(b) In terms of women's rights
(c) To be solved by men
(d) Caused by the war
5. With which of the following literary figures did Graves develop a deep and sincere friendship?
(a) Nichols
(b) Masefield
(c) Hemingway
(d) Lawrence
6. Which of the following terms did Graves use to describe military justice?
(a) Fair
(b) Harsh
(c) Uneven
(d) Disproportional
7. How did Graves describe the enrollment at Oxford in October of 1919?
(a) Nearly deserted
(b) Barren
(c) Surprisingly busy
(d) Complete
8. What did Graves and Sassoon spend many hours together doing?
(a) Planning escape from the war
(b) Finding a way to escape the war
(c) Correcting errors in reporting
(d) Writing poetry
9. In what month did Graves pass medical inspection to be able to return to battle?
(a) March
(b) July
(c) November
(d) January
10. How long did Graves go untreated?
(a) 24 hours
(b) 12 hours
(c) 3 days
(d) 2 days
11. When were Graves and Nicholson married?
(a) January 1918
(b) April 1918
(c) February 1919
(d) March 1917
12. In what year do Graves and Nicholson return to Islip?
(a) 1929
(b) 1926
(c) 1923
(d) 1930
13. What would the students who passed the examination go on to do?
(a) Become the future university instructors
(b) Become translators at embassies
(c) Work in the United States
(d) Offer English instruction at primary and secondary schools
14. Which of the following literary icons did not die in rapid succession while Graves attended Oxford?
(a) Eliot
(b) Rivers
(c) Mallory
(d) Raleigh
15. Why did Graves leave Majorca, Spain?
(a) Because his children needed different care
(b) Because his wife died
(c) Because the Spanish Civil War started
(d) Because he was not allowed to write in Spain
Short Answer Questions
1. How many children did Graves have with his second wife?
2. What nickname was Siegfried Sassoon given?
3. What was Graves plagued by as he entered school at Oxford?
4. What does Graves offer as an apology for his rapid abandonment of his teaching post in Cairo?
5. In what country did Graves live during World War II?
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