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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Vera have problems with in Chapter 4?

2. What did the locals ridicule Vera for in Chapter 2?

3. What did Edward need his father's permission to do?

4. Where did Vera go for comfort during her last semester at Oxford?

5. What illness did Vera and Betty contract in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Vera strike up a friendship with in Chapter 2?

2. What change occurred in Vera's parents' lives in Chapter 5?

3. In Chapter 5, what happened to Vera one day while working at the hospital? What did Vera do while on leave from work?

4. What did Vera's father tell her at the end of Chapter 2? How did Edward respond to this?

5. What did Vera do to contribute to the war effort in Chapter 4?

6. Why was Edward not able to enlist in the military when he wanted to? Why was Roland rejected by the military at first?

7. What did Vera decide to do after her contract at the hospital ended in Chapter 6?

8. In Chapter 6, what is said to have occurred beginning in July, and how did this affect Vera's family?

9. How did Vera settle into life at Oxford?

10. Why did Vera consider taking a leave from her schooling in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of fear in the autobiography Testament of Youth. What are some examples of fear in the book? What was Brittain afraid of and why? How did this affect her? How did she deal with her fears? Were her fears realized?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the male and female place in society during the first quarter of the 20th century. How did the woman's place in society restrict the ambitions of Brittain? How had the gender roles changed post-war?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and interpret Brittain's nursing period. Why did she become a nurse? How did she react to the horrors she saw? How did this period of her life affect her? What are some different places she went as a nurse? What are some struggles she faced while nursing?

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