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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following best describes Graves' skills at sports?
(a) Uninformed
(b) Inept
(c) Exceling
(d) Average
2. How did most of the students at Charterhouse feel about the war with Germany?
(a) Demeaning
(b) Inevitable
(c) Surprising
(d) Avoidable
3. Where was the offensive that Graves was sent forward to help prepare for?
(a) Fricourt
(b) Stockingholm
(c) Somme
(d) England
4. Why did Graves enjoy his time in Germany and feel that he received respect?
(a) Relatives' local prestige and lineage
(b) The fact that he was visiting and did not reside in Germany
(c) Castles they lived in
(d) Parents' financial status
5. Which of the following is the best definition for the term desultory as used to describe German shelling?
(a) Random
(b) Specific
(c) Methodical
(d) Tiresome
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Siegfried Sassoon do?
2. What was issued in preparation for the Somme?
3. How many days did it take Graves to travel 17 miles when he was transferred?
4. Which of the following describes the relationship between Graves and George Mallory?
5. Which of the following characters was killed in Chapter 18?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe in what way Graves' regiment was known throughout the English Army and what battles they participated in?
2. Why was Graves unable to use the new gas masks and why was this of concern to him?
3. Why did it bother Graves greatly when England became more and more anti-German?
4. In what way did Graves describe the constant flow of troops in his regiment and how did the constant change affect morale?
5. What happened in August of 1915 which would be helpful to a later major offensive in the area around La Bassye?
6. What happened to the English soldiers during the summer of 1915 as described by Graves?
7. In what way does Graves explain the concept of relative risk which evolved by the combatants in the trenches?
8. Why did Raymond encourage Graves to take up boxing?
9. What would the English soldiers do before a mass attack which some could find grisly, but the soldiers felt necessary to help the survivors?
10. What did Amalie von Ranke believe she could do once she met Alfred Graves?
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