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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Burns at the mess hall?

2. About what do Sassoon and Dr. Rivers talk that is sad?

3. Why hasn't Lizzie missed her husband?

4. What does Dr. Brock suggest to Dr. Rivers?

5. What does Dr. Rivers believe should be used as a last resort?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Prior at the hospital?

2. What is wrong with Broadbent and what does Rivers do about it?

3. Who is suppose to go on the train with Sassoon and why doesn't he?

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

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

6. What does Prior describe to Rivers in Chapter 8?

7. What game do Sassoon and Anderson play in Chapter 8 and what does Anderson almost do to Sassoon?

8. What happens to Prior at the beginning of Chapter 7 and what does Prior have to say about it?

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

10. What is causing Dr. Rivers pain in his head while he is sleeping?

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