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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 feel about eighteenth century poetry?
(a) Disgusted
(b) Moved
(c) Excited
(d) Unsympathetic

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

3. Who tutored Graves during his latter years at Oxford?
(a) W H Davies
(b) Walter de la Mare
(c) Sir Walter Raleigh
(d) T S Eliot

4. Where did the doctor advise Nancy that she should live for health reasons?
(a) Russia
(b) Italy
(c) America
(d) Egypt

5. What does the term execrable mean as it is used in the following sentence? Graves found the standard of academia execrable
(a) Creditable
(b) Courageous
(c) Deplorable
(d) Laudable

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease do Graves' children contract for which they receive only indifferent medical attention?

2. Sassoon's political views could best be described as?

3. Which genre did Graves write the most poetry in?

4. How many of Graves' children joined the Armed Forces during World War II?

5. In what year was Graves' second child born?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Graves' opinions of the war differed from those he became friends with at Oxford?

2. How did England change socially during 1919 while Graves was in Oxford?

3. Describe one specific area in which Graves demonstrated a serious nervous disorder that seemed unusual.

4. What changed about the periods of convalescence for soldiers who were injured during a battle?

5. Describe how Sassoon and Graves, both of whom were injured, spent their time recovering.

6. What did Graves become familiar with as he was stationed at headquarters company?

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

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

9. What happened to Graves when he and another soldier went off in search of some horses which were missing?

10. Describe in detail Graves' life after WWII.

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