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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. How did Graves steady his nerves when he felt nervous during the Battle of Loo?
(a) Leaving the trenches and hiding
(b) Whiskey
(c) Writing
(d) Prayer

2. How did Graves' unit travel?
(a) Train only
(b) Foot only
(c) Train and foot
(d) Truck, train and foot

3. In August of 1915, where was a major offensive planned?
(a) Cambrin
(b) Bythuyne
(c) La Bassye
(d) Vermelles

4. How far back is Graves able to trace his ancestral history?
(a) 1050
(b) 1267
(c) 1425
(d) 100

5. Which of the following did Graves use to describe death during the summer of 1915?
(a) Omnipresent
(b) Omniscient
(c) Omnipotent
(d) Ambivilent

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Graves begin to feel shame about his German heritage?

2. From what disease did Robert suffer at the young age of approximately four-and-one-half?

3. Where did Graves spend at least five of his summers while he was a child?

4. Where was the offensive that Graves was sent forward to help prepare for?

5. Which of the following did Graves indicate was not rampant among the officers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Graves think that the 'trench feet' was a result of low morale?

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

5. What happened in relation to the Officers Training Corps with Graves?

6. What happened in August of 1915 which would be helpful to a later major offensive in the area around La Bassye?

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

8. Why was Graves unable to use the new gas masks and why was this of concern to him?

9. Why did it bother Graves greatly when England became more and more anti-German?

10. In what way did Graves change the opinion of his direct supervisor and how did he accomplish this task?

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