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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy a couple beds away from Sassoon have in a previous hospitalization experience?
(a) A hole through the top of his skull.
(b) A missing eyeball.
(c) A missing nose.
(d) A wound that emasculates him.

2. What do most of the people believe who read Sassoon's Declaration?
(a) That it is treasonous.
(b) That it is written by someone besides Sassoon.
(c) That it is the ravings of a man in the throes of a breakdown.
(d) That it has some good arguments.

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

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

5. What is Dr. Rivers doing to Henry Head in Dr. Rivers' dream?
(a) Drowning him.
(b) Stabbing him with a butcher knife.
(c) Causing pain to Henry's head.
(d) Hitting him with a cricket bat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Prior want of Dr. Rivers?

2. Where does Burns go?

3. Who wrote the letter Dr. Rivers is reading at the beginning of Chapter 1?

4. Who is having an asthma attack?

5. Why does Prior apologize to Rivers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Prior that sent him to the hospital?

2. What does Sassoon describe to Dr. Rivers about what happened when he first returned from France and what does he say about it now?

3. What happens to Burns in Chapter 2 and what is Rivers' response?

4. How does Rivers try to convince Sassoon to return to the war?

5. What does the writer say in the letter and what consequences has he suffered as the result of the letter?

6. What does Sassoon tell Dr. Rivers about his medical board and what did the board determine about Sassoon?

7. What happened to Sassoon's Declaration and how does Sassoon feel about that and what does he and Rivers discuss in Chapter 7 besides this?

8. What does Sassoon do after his swim with Graves?

9. What does Rivers think about Anderson's vision of Rivers in one of Anderson's dreams?

10. What does Rivers see when Prior's parents visit?

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