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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Anderson's former occupation?
(a) Ship's loblolly boy.
(b) Ship captain.
(c) Aide de camp.
(d) War surgeon.

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

3. How does Prior appear at the opening of Chapter 8?
(a) Worn thin.
(b) Belligerent.
(c) Healthy and alert.
(d) Energetic.

4. Who does Broadbent want to visit?
(a) His sweetheart.
(b) His mother.
(c) His own doctor.
(d) His uncle.

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

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

7. What happens to Burns at the mess hall?
(a) Nothing happens.
(b) He gets sick.
(c) He is attacked by another patient.
(d) He falls asleep and his face falls in his food.

8. What does Sassoon do when he arrives at the steps into the hospital?
(a) Stumble over the steps.
(b) Run up the steps immediately.
(c) Sit down on the top step.
(d) Pause for a moment.

9. Where does Prior go?
(a) Home.
(b) Back to the front.
(c) To the forest.
(d) Sick bay.

10. Where is Prior when he first goes under hypnotism?
(a) Making battle plans with two other officers.
(b) In the latrine.
(c) In a dugout awaiting orders.
(d) Playing cards with two other officers.

11. For what does Sassoon feel horror?
(a) The mustard gas.
(b) Being a coward.
(c) Having to sleep inside.
(d) The slaughter on the fields.

12. What can Prior not do?
(a) Speak.
(b) Cry.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Hear.

13. How does Prior wake up most of the people in the hospital?
(a) He plays his trumpet down the halls.
(b) He bangs on patients' doors.
(c) He has a nightmare.
(d) He yells at the nurse in the hallway.

14. Who does Prior insult in a drunken state?
(a) His father.
(b) Anderson.
(c) Rivers.
(d) The hospital matron.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Prior apologize to Rivers?

2. How does Dr. Rivers feel about the declaration from Sassoon?

3. What does Burns see where he is?

4. Where does Dr. Rivers work?

5. What mental state is more common for enlisted men than officers?

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