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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 Siegfried Sassoon do?
(a) Write poetry
(b) Write for a newspaper
(c) Write war plan and attack plans
(d) Write articles

2. Where did Graves and George Mallory become good friends?
(a) Charterhouse
(b) Parent's home
(c) Oxford
(d) Germany

3. 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

4. In what form was Chapter 13 originally composed?
(a) Oral dictation
(b) Personal letters
(c) Personal narrative
(d) Diary entries

5. Where was Graves posted when he was transferred to the Royal Welch Fusiliers?
(a) 2nd Battalion
(b) 1st Battalion
(c) 3rd Battalion
(d) 4th Battalion

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following characters was killed in Chapter 18?

3. In what year was Chapter 13 originally written?

4. What were the English exultant to receive their first shipment of?

5. Which disease did Graves believe resulted mostly from low morale?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe how Graves found his experiences climbing with George Mallory.

3. Why did Raymond encourage Graves to take up boxing?

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

5. How does Graves recall the time he spent in Germany with his relatives during the summers of his childhood?

6. How did Robert Graves and his friend, Nevill Barbour, feel about their time in public schools?

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

8. Describe in what way Graves' regiment was known throughout the English Army and what battles they participated in?

9. In what way did Graves describe the constant flow of troops in his regiment and how did the constant change affect morale?

10. What factors does Graves indicate have led to the waning of religious feeling among the soldiers?

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