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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the age range of the men in Graves' platoon of Welshmen?
(a) 20-70
(b) 12-45
(c) 15-63
(d) 18-50
2. What was issued in preparation for the Somme?
(a) New rifles
(b) New gas masks
(c) New mortars
(d) New bullets
3. Which disease did Graves believe resulted mostly from low morale?
(a) Alcoholism
(b) Suicide
(c) Trench feet
(d) Neurathenia
4. Approximately how many men out of the 800 men were casualties after the first day of the Battle of Loo?
(a) 700
(b) 200
(c) 550
(d) 650
5. After the Great War, what did Graves insist he was as far as his heritage was concerned?
(a) French
(b) Spanish
(c) English
(d) Irish
6. Which of the following classes of people ranked lowest within the social code that Graves describes?
(a) Immigrant workers
(b) Serfs
(c) Bourgeoisie
(d) Women
7. When did Graves begin to feel shame about his German heritage?
(a) When his relatives committed crimes
(b) After he aged and reflected back on his childhood
(c) As the great war approached
(d) When he was home in England
8. How long after Graves finished school at Charterhouse did it take before England declared war on Germany?
(a) Two weeks
(b) One month
(c) One week
(d) Two days
9. Where did Graves and some others go to rescue survivors after the battle of Loo?
(a) Barbed wire area
(b) Germany
(c) Trenches
(d) No Man's Land
10. In August of 1915, where was a major offensive planned?
(a) Bythuyne
(b) Cambrin
(c) Vermelles
(d) La Bassye
11. From what disease did Robert suffer at the young age of approximately four-and-one-half?
(a) Encephalitis
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Scarlet fever
(d) Polio
12. What were many of the students at Charterhouse impressed with in regards to Graves?
(a) Poetic skills
(b) Academic skills
(c) Physical ability
(d) Mental Abilities
13. Which of the following characters was killed in Chapter 18?
(a) Siegfried Sassoon
(b) Dick
(c) Captain Richardson
(d) Dave Thomas
14. How did Graves steady his nerves when he felt nervous during the Battle of Loo?
(a) Writing
(b) Prayer
(c) Whiskey
(d) Leaving the trenches and hiding
15. What did Amalie von Ranke want to perform while traveling?
(a) Sight seeing
(b) Humanitarian services
(c) Finding a husband
(d) Writing travel brochures
Short Answer Questions
1. What new so-called accessory was planned to be released upon the German lines?
2. In what form was Chapter 13 originally composed?
3. Which of the following best defines the term untoward when used to describe Jack Graves' school chum?
4. How far back is Graves able to trace his ancestral history?
5. How did Graves' unit travel?
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