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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Broadbent?
(a) A new nurse.
(b) A new doctor at the hospital.
(c) A new patient at the hospital.
(d) The new hospital administrator.

2. Why did Sassoon want a court-martial?
(a) So he could get out of the army.
(b) So they would hang him.
(c) To prove he is innocent.
(d) To get his story out to the public.

3. What does Prior ask of Dr. Rivers again?
(a) For release to go back to the front.
(b) For hypnosis.
(c) For a discharge.
(d) For a pass to go home for a few days.

4. Who comes to visit at the hospital?
(a) Prior's parents.
(b) Sassoon's father.
(c) Dr. River's parents.
(d) Burns's mother.

5. What does Sassoon notice about the taxi driver?
(a) He is wearing a uniform.
(b) It is a woman.
(c) He looks sick.
(d) He is staring at him in the mirror.

6. What does Prior find when he returns to the fire bay after a shell hits it?
(a) The ruined remains of two soldiers who were making tea.
(b) Bits and pieces of six men which he can't sort out.
(c) A conflagration.
(d) There is nothing there.

7. How is Prior affecting his roommate?
(a) He is making the roommate laugh.
(b) He is scaring the roommate.
(c) He is causing the roommate to start believing in ghosts.
(d) Prior's nightmares are keeping the roommate awake.

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

9. Who is giving Dr. Rivers difficulty?
(a) Sacretes.
(b) Jones.
(c) Prior.
(d) Burns.

10. What do most of the people believe who read Sassoon's Declaration?
(a) That it is written by someone besides Sassoon.
(b) That it is the ravings of a man in the throes of a breakdown.
(c) That it has some good arguments.
(d) That it is treasonous.

11. What does Rivers tell Bryce about Sassoon?
(a) He didn't care for his arrogance.
(b) He is probably crazy.
(c) He is just a coward.
(d) He was impressed by him and likes him.

12. What does Prior want of Dr. Rivers?
(a) An assignment to a private room.
(b) For Rivers to talk with Prior's father.
(c) To be hypnotized.
(d) Discharge.

13. Who is Second-lieutenant Prior?
(a) An officer who is charged with dereliction of duty.
(b) A character introduced in Chapter 5.
(c) The dead brother of one of Craiglockhart's patients.
(d) The new commanding officer of Company D.

14. What is missing from Sassoon's uniform?
(a) His unit patch.
(b) A medal for valor.
(c) His rank designator.
(d) A button.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the letter Dr. Rivers is reading at the beginning of Chapter 1?

2. What times does Burns return to the hospital?

3. Who is Wilfred Owen?

4. What can Prior not do?

5. Who does Dr. Rivers see after supper?

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