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

2. Where does Henry Head offer a job to Dr. Rivers?
(a) Central Hospital at Hampstead.
(b) He has not offered Rivers a job.
(c) Central Hospital at Newarington.
(d) Psychiatric hospital in Offingham.

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

4. Why is Prior embarrassed?
(a) Learning he was upset just at seeing dead soldiers.
(b) For the way he was afraid of being hypnotized.
(c) He is not embarrassed.
(d) Having to explain why he missed their rendezvous.

5. Of what does Owen say his poem is symbolic?
(a) The reasons for the start of the war.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Dr. Brock's view of the patients at Craiglockhart.
(d) The prince whose assassination starts the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarah's mother think about the relationship between men and women?

2. To what does Willard attribute what happens to him?

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

4. What does Sassoon do?

5. How does Sarah reassure Prior?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sassoon do about one of Owen's poems?

2. What happens with Prior and Lumb when they see each other again after a week of not seeing each other?

3. Why is Peter sent to Rivers?

4. What does Sarah's mother tell her about romance?

5. What does Rivers do that makes the other board members stare at him?

6. Why does Rivers go to Aldebugh?

7. How is Willard doing by Chapter 20 and to what does he credit his state?

8. What does Rivers try to do for his brother while on leave but what does he end up doing?

9. Why does Sassoon meet Graves in Chapter 17 and what does he tell Graves?

10. Where does Rivers go on leave and why is that place there for him to visit?

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