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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 describe a proposed assault that was called off?
(a) A mistake
(b) Well laid out
(c) Good planning
(d) Suicide
2. How did Graves feel about eighteenth century poetry?
(a) Disgusted
(b) Moved
(c) Unsympathetic
(d) Excited
3. Who visited Graves on the ship before he departed for Egypt?
(a) Catherine
(b) Lawrence
(c) Sassoon
(d) Eliot
4. What did Graves believe he contracted?
(a) Pneumonia
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Plague
(d) Spanish influenza
5. What does the term execrable mean as it is used in the following sentence?
Graves found the standard of academia execrable
(a) Laudable
(b) Courageous
(c) Deplorable
(d) Creditable
Short Answer Questions
1. What group recruited Sassoon into its cause?
2. Which of the following terms did Graves use to describe military justice?
3. Why did Graves' commanding officer refuse to honor his request to resign his commission?
4. How many children did Graves have with his second wife?
5. Which of the following characters opened a shop for about six months and did a brisk business in groceries and goods?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did England change socially during 1919 while Graves was in Oxford?
2. In what way did Graves act to prevent his friend Sassoon from being court-martialed or serving a prison sentence?
3. How did Graves feel about what his commanding officer did regarding his demobilization request and what steps did he take to ensure the demobilization?
4. What did Graves do in Ireland that he found distasteful though he performed it as it was his duty?
5. What changed about the periods of convalescence for soldiers who were injured during a battle?
6. Describe how Sassoon and Graves, both of whom were injured, spent their time recovering.
7. Describe the three essays Graves uses as an apology for his rapid abandonment of his teaching post in Cairo.
8. What did Graves do during his recovery period from his nose surgery before he returned to the war?
9. Describe how Graves passed the time before he underwent the operation on his nose while he was back home in England?
10. Upon return to the 3rd Battalion in England, what did Graves and Sassoon do for the military and to pass the time?
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