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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 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

2. Which of the following literary icons did not die in rapid succession while Graves attended Oxford?
(a) Mallory
(b) Raleigh
(c) Rivers
(d) Eliot

3. Where did Graves move toward the end of Chapter 28?
(a) Cottage
(b) Townhouse in the city
(c) Village house that he rented from his mother
(d) Back to Germany with his relatives

4. With which of the following literary figures did Graves develop a deep and sincere friendship?
(a) Hemingway
(b) Lawrence
(c) Nichols
(d) Masefield

5. Which of the following literary figures was not one of friendships Graves made while at Oxford?
(a) Nichols
(b) Lawrence
(c) Masefield
(d) Hemingway

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Graves do after he left the service?

2. In what city did Graves rejoin the war?

3. How did Graves feel about the war rationing of food?

4. Where was Graves assigned since he was unable to return to combat?

5. What did Graves pretend he was in the tiny cottage during his recovery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened in late July to Graves' company and to him during an artillery formation?

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

3. How did Graves feel about the local customs and culture while in Egypt?

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

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

6. What happened as Graves tried to resign his commission and demobilize as a student to Oxford?

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

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

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

10. What did Graves do in Ireland that he found distasteful though he performed it as it was his duty?

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