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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 Graves do after he left the service?
(a) Became a student at Oxford
(b) Stayed home with his daughter
(c) Moved to America
(d) Went into the theatre

2. What sport does Graves take up?
(a) Soccer
(b) Cricket
(c) Baseball
(d) Football

3. What did Graves pretend he was in the tiny cottage during his recovery?
(a) Doctor
(b) Dentist
(c) Poet
(d) Reporter

4. What present day term is equivalent to what Graves refers to as neurasthenia and illusion?
(a) Shell-shock with flashbacks
(b) PSTD
(c) Insomina
(d) Schizophrenia

5. What illness did Graves develop after a few weeks at his new assignment?
(a) Abscessed tooth
(b) Pneumonia
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Blood infection

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Graves describe the enrollment at Oxford in October of 1919?

2. What did Graves find displayed everywhere in England?

3. Who does Graves routinely help out?

4. Why did Graves leave Majorca, Spain?

5. What was the last year Graves attended Oxford?

Short Essay Questions

1. During this post-war time, what did Nicholson do that later Graves and Lawrence needed to help him with?

2. How did Graves feel about what his commanding officer did regarding his demobilization request and what steps did he take to ensure the demobilization?

3. Describe the university and classes Graves held as he began his new post as a professor in Egypt.

4. In what way did Graves act to prevent his friend Sassoon from being court-martialed or serving a prison sentence?

5. What happened to Graves and his family toward the end of his schooling and what steps did he take because of this?

6. After Graves was injured, what steps were taken by the military and himself?

7. Describe the three essays Graves uses as an apology for his rapid abandonment of his teaching post in Cairo.

8. Describe how Graves passed the time before he underwent the operation on his nose while he was back home in England?

9. What was different between the original text and the 1957 revision?

10. In what ways were Graves and T.E. Lawrence alike while they were together at Oxford?

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