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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Sassoon and Graves go for some recreation?
(a) The pool hall.
(b) The polo field.
(c) Swimming.
(d) A gentleman's club.

2. Who is Wilfred Owen?
(a) A poet and fan of Sassoon.
(b) A soldier who loses his arm and leg in combat.
(c) A new doctor.
(d) One of Sassoon's enlisted men.

3. Where is the person Rivers is interviewing a patient?
(a) Craiglockhart.
(b) Chattahoochee.
(c) Bellevue.
(d) Jonesburg.

4. What does Sassoon notice about the taxi driver?
(a) It is a woman.
(b) He looks sick.
(c) He is wearing a uniform.
(d) He is staring at him in the mirror.

5. How does Prior respond to Rivers' offer to hypnotize him?
(a) He is reluctant but agrees.
(b) He says no way.
(c) He says he agrees but only if Rivers does not reveal anything to anyone else.
(d) He is quite anxious to have it done.

6. Where does Dr. Rivers work?
(a) Newington Field.
(b) Craighlockhart.
(c) Castlewood Army Base.
(d) Hazelton Asylum.

7. Into what does Dr. Rivers get some insight?
(a) The way hypnotism can be inaccurate.
(b) Prior's earlier life.
(c) The way the mind can fool itself.
(d) Burns' earlier life.

8. What does Rivers think about as he prepares to sleep the night of Prior's hypnotism?
(a) His sister who is killed driving an ambulance.
(b) Prior's confession.
(c) Rivers needs a vacation.
(d) His brother who is killed the year before.

9. Where is Prior when he first goes under hypnotism?
(a) Making battle plans with two other officers.
(b) In the latrine.
(c) In a dugout awaiting orders.
(d) Playing cards with two other officers.

10. Who is Second-lieutenant Prior?
(a) A character introduced in Chapter 5.
(b) An officer who is charged with dereliction of duty.
(c) The dead brother of one of Craiglockhart's patients.
(d) The new commanding officer of Company D.

11. Who is giving Dr. Rivers difficulty?
(a) Burns.
(b) Sacretes.
(c) Prior.
(d) Jones.

12. What happens to Sassoon instead of a court-martial?
(a) He is declared insane.
(b) He is going to the war office.
(c) He is put on leave.
(d) He is discharged from the service.

13. How does Sassoon feel towards civilians?
(a) He likes them.
(b) He is indifferent to them.
(c) He envies them.
(d) He hates them.

14. What does Burns see where he is?
(a) His best friend being shot.
(b) Dead animals hanging from a large tree.
(c) An angel standing in front of the altar.
(d) Vampires rising out of the graves.

15. What do Sassoon and Dr. Rivers talk about when Sassoon returns from swimming?
(a) Graves.
(b) Going home.
(c) His father and Lloyd George.
(d) Anderson.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is Sassoon disappointed?

2. What is missing from Sassoon's uniform?

3. Who comes to visit at the hospital?

4. Why does Graves miss the train?

5. What does Graves tell Dr. Rivers about Sassoon's board decision?

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