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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy a couple beds away from Sassoon have in a previous hospitalization experience?
(a) A missing nose.
(b) A wound that emasculates him.
(c) A missing eyeball.
(d) A hole through the top of his skull.

2. How does Dr. Rivers feel about the declaration from Sassoon?
(a) It is delusional.
(b) It is illogical.
(c) It is illegal.
(d) It is misguided.

3. Who is Wilfred Owen?
(a) A poet and fan of Sassoon.
(b) One of Sassoon's enlisted men.
(c) A soldier who loses his arm and leg in combat.
(d) A new doctor.

4. Into what does Dr. Rivers get some insight?
(a) Burns' earlier life.
(b) The way the mind can fool itself.
(c) The way hypnotism can be inaccurate.
(d) Prior's earlier life.

5. What does Sassoon think about on the train?
(a) His brother's death.
(b) His mother's funeral.
(c) His last conversation with Graves.
(d) Going to the front next month.

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

7. Where is the person Rivers is interviewing a patient?
(a) Jonesburg.
(b) Craiglockhart.
(c) Bellevue.
(d) Chattahoochee.

8. What does Rivers think Sassoon might be experiencing?
(a) A mid-life crisis.
(b) Some distress.
(c) Too much fear.
(d) A religious conversion.

9. What does Campbell think about Sassoon?
(a) He might be a German spy.
(b) He is getting special treatment.
(c) He doesn't eat enough food.
(d) He is too messy.

10. Why does Rivers reassign Broadbent?
(a) Because Broadbent's family has a great deal of influence.
(b) Because Broadbent is so deranged.
(c) Because Craiglockhart is full.
(d) So Rivers does not have to deal with the man.

11. Who does Dr. Rivers see after supper?
(a) Burns.
(b) Prior.
(c) Sassoon.
(d) No one; Rivers is off duty.

12. What does Williard believe about himself?
(a) He is a General of the Army.
(b) He is paralyzed from the waist down.
(c) He is the King of England.
(d) The war is over.

13. With what is the letter writer diagnosed?
(a) No particular diganosis.
(b) Parkinson's disease.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Neurasthenia.

14. Who was worried about Burns while he was gone?
(a) The nurses.
(b) Anderson.
(c) His commanding officer.
(d) His psychiatrist.

15. Who does Prior meet at a pub?
(a) A woman who works in munitions.
(b) Anderson and a nurse.
(c) A woman who knows Prior's sister.
(d) Sassoon and a nurse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to visit at the hospital?

2. Why did Sassoon want a court-martial?

3. What do Sassoon and Dr. Rivers talk about when Sassoon returns from swimming?

4. Who plays golf together?

5. How does Prior wake up most of the people in the hospital?

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