Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

CHAPTERS 1-9

Reading Check

1. In reflecting on some of his earliest childhood memories in Chapter 1, Graves remembers his father keeping what famous author’s work in the drawing-room cupboards?

2. During his summers in Germany, Graves develops a distaste for which major German city, expressing revulsion at its “disgusting beer fumes […] and enormously stout population” (Chapter 4)?

3. As described in Chapter 5, Amalie had a house built in what quiet town, where Graves loved exploring the desolate rocky countryside?

4. What health issue causes Graves to stop playing football (soccer) in his second year at Charterhouse?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. How did Graves first become “class-conscious” as a young boy?

2. What are the two main reasons that Alfred often removes Graves from his prep schools, as Graves describes in Chapter 3?

3. At Charthouse, why does Graves’s full name—Robert von Ranke Graves—pose a problem for him?

4. In his last 2 years at Charterhouse, how does Graves’s relationship with the Church of England begin to fade?

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