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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dr. Rivers doing in Chapter 20?
(a) Writing a letter to his father.
(b) Writing his observations of Sassoon.
(c) Meeting with his lover.
(d) Making his last rounds at Craiglockhart.

2. Who did Siegfried's father "war"?
(a) Many a kestrel.
(b) Many enemy soldiers.
(c) A pigeon and a dove.
(d) Himself.

3. What does Bryce order Dr. Rivers to do?
(a) Take 2 days off.
(b) Put in for reassignment.
(c) Reassign Prior to another doctor.
(d) Take three weeks leave.

4. Why is Madge in the hospital?
(a) She is sick from the munitions dust.
(b) She is hit with sharpnel from a wayward bomb.
(c) She puntures her bladder.
(d) She has the flu.

5. What does Sassoon do?
(a) Kills himself.
(b) Leaves the hospital.
(c) Sits for a court martial for insubordination.
(d) Gets a girl pregnant.

6. How does Sarah's mother say a woman loves a man?
(a) With total absorption.
(b) Pathetically.
(c) In the way a flower loves a bee.
(d) In the way a tapeworm loves the gut.

7. Who does Sassoon meet at a bar?
(a) Anderson.
(b) Dr. Rivers.
(c) Graves.
(d) Owen.

8. To what does Willard attribute what happens to him?
(a) A great medical feat by Dr. Rivers.
(b) His cowardice.
(c) His distaste for the lunatics at the hospital.
(d) A failure on Dr. Rivers' part.

9. Where were the "fathers" in the dedication?
(a) Jews.
(b) Demons.
(c) Poets.
(d) Crusaders.

10. What does Sassoon believe about one of Owen's poems?
(a) Its subject matter is dull.
(b) Its rhythm is uneven.
(c) It is ready to be published nationally.
(d) It is rather mediocre.

11. What does Prior believe Sarah should do?
(a) Marry him.
(b) Pay him in some way for fighting for freedom.
(c) Meet his best friend.
(d) Not see him again.

12. What is a first for Sarah and Prior?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A misunderstanding about Prior's intentions.
(c) A fight.
(d) Privacy.

13. Why does Prior start feeling hostile towards Sarah?
(a) He is not hostile to her.
(b) He sees her as part of people who seek to have fun and pleasure all the time.
(c) He thinks she just pities him.
(d) He thinks she wants him for his social standing.

14. What happens to Madge's unborn baby?
(a) It dies from the shrapnel wound.
(b) It dies from the flu Madge has and they have to do a C section.
(c) It aborts, probably from the side effects of the munitions powder.
(d) It survives.

15. What does Rivers spend much time doing while at the chicken farm?
(a) Reading fiction.
(b) Remembering his childhood.
(c) Cleaning out cages.
(d) Riding the one horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sassoon on his way to see at the end of Chapter 18?

2. What does Dr. Rivers' brother contract in the East?

3. From where does Sassoon get his name?

4. Who does Sassoon see in the doorway when he wakes?

5. What does Sarah's mother think Prior wants with Sarah?

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