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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Prior not remember?
(a) Where he lives.
(b) His name.
(c) That he is in the military.
(d) The terrible thing that happened to him in the war.

2. Who is Dr. Rivers interviewing at the opening to Chapter 4?
(a) No one.
(b) Anderson.
(c) Graves.
(d) Sassoon.

3. How does Prior wake up most of the people in the hospital?
(a) He yells at the nurse in the hallway.
(b) He bangs on patients' doors.
(c) He has a nightmare.
(d) He plays his trumpet down the halls.

4. What does Prior deny to Dr. Rivers?
(a) Banging on other men's doors.
(b) Having a nightmare.
(c) Playing the trumpet after quiet hours.
(d) Yelling at the nurse.

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

6. What does Sassoon do when he arrives at the steps into the hospital?
(a) Run up the steps immediately.
(b) Stumble over the steps.
(c) Sit down on the top step.
(d) Pause for a moment.

7. What does Graves tell Dr. Rivers about Sassoon's board decision?
(a) He wanted Sassoon to be court-martialed.
(b) He lied to Sassoon about it.
(c) He had no connection to the board.
(d) He didn't know the board would send Sassoon there.

8. What happens to Burns at the mess hall?
(a) He falls asleep and his face falls in his food.
(b) Nothing happens.
(c) He gets sick.
(d) He is attacked by another patient.

9. Why did Sassoon want a court-martial?
(a) To prove he is innocent.
(b) To get his story out to the public.
(c) So he could get out of the army.
(d) So they would hang him.

10. What did Sassoon do with the answer to question #8?
(a) Threw it in the river.
(b) Gave it to his girlfriend.
(c) Left it on his dresser at home.
(d) Threw it at a German soldier.

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

12. What does Prior ask of Dr. Rivers again?
(a) For a pass to go home for a few days.
(b) For a discharge.
(c) For hypnosis.
(d) For release to go back to the front.

13. What is Anderson's problem?
(a) He can move things with his mind that he doesn not want to do.
(b) He hears voices.
(c) He cannot stand the sight of blood.
(d) He murdered his mother.

14. What does Head to to Rivers in Dr. Rivers' dream?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Pokes him in the arm with a needle.
(c) Turns him into a vampire.
(d) Shows him what is wrong with each man at the hospital.

15. About what is Sassoon disappointed?
(a) That he is to be discharged.
(b) That his Declaration is dismissed.
(c) That he cannot get back into the war.
(d) That his Declaration is taken too seriously.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Henry Head?

2. What does Rivers say when Sassoon asks if he is crazy?

3. How long is Prior confined to the hospital?

4. What does Rivers think about as he prepares to sleep the night of Prior's hypnotism?

5. How does Prior respond to Rivers' offer to hypnotize him?

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