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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Broadbent believe?
(a) That the Germans have invaded England.
(b) That Dr. Rivers wants to send him back to die.
(c) That he is a British captain.
(d) That Dr. Rivers can cure him.

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

3. Who does Broadbent say is ill?
(a) His sweetheart.
(b) His mother.
(c) No one.
(d) Himself.

4. What do the poems Graves leaves with Rivers talk about?
(a) Sassoon's feelings on the war.
(b) The way the army uses young kids.
(c) The look of spring in France.
(d) How to keep a woman loving you.

5. Who is Henry Head?
(a) Rivers's father's best friend.
(b) An old friend of Dr. Rivers'.
(c) The dean at the medical school from which Rivers graduates.
(d) The custodian at the hospital.

6. What does Williard believe about himself?
(a) The war is over.
(b) He is the King of England.
(c) He is a General of the Army.
(d) He is paralyzed from the waist down.

7. What is Dr. Rivers' response to Prior's request?
(a) He says the private rooms are only for the violent patients.
(b) He calls Prior's father.
(c) He refuses it.
(d) He says Prior is not eligible for a discharge.

8. What book has Prior been reading?
(a) A comic book.
(b) A book on hypochondria.
(c) Dr. Rivers' book on hypnosis.
(d) A book about the paranormal.

9. What does Prior want of Dr. Rivers?
(a) To be hypnotized.
(b) For Rivers to talk with Prior's father.
(c) Discharge.
(d) An assignment to a private room.

10. Who wrote the letter Dr. Rivers is reading at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Burns.
(b) Owen.
(c) Sassoon.
(d) Robert Graves.

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

12. What was Anderson's former occupation?
(a) Ship's loblolly boy.
(b) Ship captain.
(c) War surgeon.
(d) Aide de camp.

13. Who is delusional?
(a) Sassoon.
(b) Prior.
(c) Burns.
(d) Broadbent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Burns at the mess hall?

2. What did Sassoon do with the answer to question #8?

3. About what does Dr. Rivers taunt Sassoon?

4. What is Anderson's problem?

5. What does the letter Dr. Rivers is reading say?

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