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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. What did many of the English soldiers do routinely before a mass attack?
(a) Go into town to have a party
(b) Read and prayer together as a group
(c) Pool their cash into a sweepstakes
(d) Drink heavily

2. What did Graves and his fellow officers argue the merits of?
(a) Parade-ground drill
(b) Religious beliefs
(c) Purposing of conducting lectures
(d) Nationality drills

3. Which of the following characters was killed in Chapter 18?
(a) Siegfried Sassoon
(b) Dick
(c) Captain Richardson
(d) Dave Thomas

4. What did Graves do that impressed his superior officer?
(a) Spoke German fluently
(b) Showed exlempary guarding duties
(c) Organized his troops well
(d) Competed well in a local boxing match

5. What was issued in preparation for the Somme?
(a) New gas masks
(b) New rifles
(c) New mortars
(d) New bullets

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Amalie give birth to with Alfred?

2. What did Siegfried Sassoon do?

3. Why was the Royal Welch Fusiliers regiment not disgraced when they surrendered at Yorktown?

4. How long was Graves in Harfleur 'Bull Ring'?

5. What injury did Graves suffer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Graves spend his time at the Harfleur 'Bull Ring'?

2. What would the English soldiers do before a mass attack which some could find grisly, but the soldiers felt necessary to help the survivors?

3. How were Graves and his siblings raised and what was the system they were raised under?

4. What is unique and different beginning with Chapter 12 and how has it been changed from its original format?

5. What happened to the English soldiers during the summer of 1915 as described by Graves?

6. What did Amalie von Ranke believe she could do once she met Alfred Graves?

7. What was Graves' opinion related to Mallory and the climb up Mount Everest?

8. Why does Graves prefer the Fricourt trenches to the trenches he has been in in the past?

9. What information did Graves learn about Dick which he found unsettling and how did he respond to this information?

10. What happened just hours before the gas offensive which caused great confusion and horrible casualties among the British forces?

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