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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How did Graves find the politics of school life?
(a) Easily maneuvered
(b) Distasteful
(c) Stimulating
(d) Engaging
2. How did Graves consider the war?
(a) Clear and well run
(b) Understandable and necessary
(c) A brave effort
(d) Evil and pointless
3. What does the term execrable mean as it is used in the following sentence?
Graves found the standard of academia execrable
(a) Deplorable
(b) Laudable
(c) Courageous
(d) Creditable
4. What would the students who passed the examination go on to do?
(a) Become the future university instructors
(b) Offer English instruction at primary and secondary schools
(c) Become translators at embassies
(d) Work in the United States
5. Why did Graves leave Majorca, Spain?
(a) Because the Spanish Civil War started
(b) Because his children needed different care
(c) Because he was not allowed to write in Spain
(d) Because his wife died
6. Where was Graves sent to a hospital to receive treatment?
(a) Somme
(b) Liverpool
(c) England
(d) Rousen
7. How old was Graves in 1916?
(a) 25
(b) 18
(c) 16
(d) 21
8. In what city did Graves rejoin the war?
(a) London
(b) Litherland
(c) Somme
(d) Givenchy
9. Who refused to allow Graves to rejoin combat?
(a) Regimental doctor
(b) Personal physician
(c) Sassoon
(d) Graves's mother
10. Which of the following literary figures was not one of friendships Graves made while at Oxford?
(a) Masefield
(b) Nichols
(c) Lawrence
(d) Hemingway
11. What did Graves and Sassoon do once they rejoined the 3rd Battalion in England?
(a) Continued their convalescence in a rehabilitation hospital
(b) Trained new soldiers
(c) Covered the war for newspapers
(d) Drafted new soldiers
12. In what year was the armistice announced?
(a) 1915
(b) 1918
(c) 1920
(d) 1916
13. What group recruited Sassoon into its cause?
(a) Anti-war pacifists
(b) Pro-war patriots
(c) Literary writers
(d) German sympathizers
14. What present day term is equivalent to what Graves refers to as neurasthenia and illusion?
(a) PSTD
(b) Shell-shock with flashbacks
(c) Schizophrenia
(d) Insomina
15. Where was Graves sent by a strange accident of military orders?
(a) Ireland
(b) England
(c) France
(d) Germany
Short Answer Questions
1. Who continues to live with Graves?
2. What nickname was Siegfried Sassoon given?
3. In what month did Graves pass medical inspection to be able to return to battle?
4. What did Lawrence personally refuse to do in regard to his books?
5. Which of the following terms did Graves use to describe England?
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