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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Prior believe Sarah should do?
(a) Marry him.
(b) Meet his best friend.
(c) Not see him again.
(d) Pay him in some way for fighting for freedom.

2. Where do Sarah and Madge go?
(a) To find jobs in London.
(b) To see Madge's lover in the hospital.
(c) To find jobs in Birmingham.
(d) To volunteer for the woman's army corps.

3. What does Dr. Rivers think about Bryce?
(a) That Bryce is faking his problem.
(b) That Bryce will recover, but it will take many years.
(c) He thinks he will be gone in a month.
(d) He thinks he is too mentally ill to work.

4. What does Sarah's mother say happens in a condom factory?
(a) Men get revenge on women.
(b) More sex than anywhere else.
(c) She doesn't mention a condom factory.
(d) One in ten condoms is deliberately compromised.

5. What is wrong with the women who work in the munitions factories?
(a) They have breathing problems.
(b) They have a slight tremor.
(c) They are losing their eyesight.
(d) They all have a yellow tint to their skin.

6. What is the purpose of Dr. Rivers' brother having a chicken farm?
(a) To please his wife.
(b) To please their parents.
(c) To be out in the fresh air a lot.
(d) As a social experiment.

7. Where does Dr. Rivers go on leave?
(a) To visit his brother on a chicken farm.
(b) To France.
(c) To the Mediterrean.
(d) To Ireland.

8. Where were the "fathers" in the dedication?
(a) Jews.
(b) Crusaders.
(c) Poets.
(d) Demons.

9. What does Sassoon have when he meets with Owen?
(a) A book.
(b) A suitcase.
(c) A gun.
(d) Very expensive wine.

10. Where does Burns go one night during a storm?
(a) The cellar.
(b) His son's tree house.
(c) A cave in which he played as a child.
(d) An old tower.

11. What does Sarah's mother think Prior wants with Sarah?
(a) Just sex.
(b) A handhold to sanity.
(c) A shoulder to cry on.
(d) For a wife.

12. What sort of problem does Rivers remember he had as a child?
(a) Dyslexia.
(b) Stammering.
(c) Crossed eyes.
(d) A bad limp from polio.

13. What does Sassoon do?
(a) Sits for a court martial for insubordination.
(b) Leaves the hospital.
(c) Kills himself.
(d) Gets a girl pregnant.

14. Where does Dr. Rivers go to visit Burns?
(a) London.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Nottingham.
(d) Aldeburgh.

15. What does Madge do at home?
(a) Bakes a cake for Sarah to give Prior, but she has no baking powder.
(b) Commits suicide.
(c) Attempts an abortion.
(d) Seduces an Air Force Captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Madge in the hospital?

2. What is mimicked?

3. Why does Prior want to return to the war?

4. How does Sarah's mother say men love?

5. What does Prior not want to happen?

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