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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. What did Vera make notes for in Chapter 10?

2. What did Vera and Winifred often have to do because of their jobs?

3. What worried Vera during her voyage to her foreign post?

4. What did Vera earn her income from?

5. How did Vera think Winifred viewed her?

Short Essay Questions

1. On what topic did Vera become an accomplished speaker? How in-demand was she as a lecturer?

2. What news did Vera receive from Etaples in Chapter 9?

3. What did Roland's mother help Vera to do in Chapter 9?

4. What was life at Etaples like for Vera?

5. Why did Vera and Betty grow apart in Malta?

6. What did students who had been involved with the war find hard to adjust to at Oxford?

7. In Chapter 8, where did Vera ask to be sent for her next nursing assignment?

8. After returning from Europe, what was Vera's main source of income? What were Vera's career ambitions?

9. What was the title of Vera's published novel and what was it about?

10. Who did Vera clash with in Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of discrimination in the autobiography Testament of Youth. What are some examples of discrimination in the book? What discrimination did Brittain face, particularly in regards to her education? How did she handle this discrimination?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the setting of the book. Why is the setting of "Testament of Youth" an important element of the book? Why was this time and place so influential on Brittain's life?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the conflicts in the autobiography. Who does Brittain have conflict with and why? How does she deal with these conflicts? What causes these conflicts? How do they affect her life?

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