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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Henry Head?
(a) An old friend of Dr. Rivers'.
(b) The dean at the medical school from which Rivers graduates.
(c) The custodian at the hospital.
(d) Rivers's father's best friend.

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

4. What does Prior deny to Dr. Rivers?
(a) Yelling at the nurse.
(b) Banging on other men's doors.
(c) Having a nightmare.
(d) Playing the trumpet after quiet hours.

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

6. What is Anderson's problem?
(a) He murdered his mother.
(b) He can move things with his mind that he doesn not want to do.
(c) He hears voices.
(d) He cannot stand the sight of blood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Who is having an asthma attack?
(a) Broadbent.
(b) Prior.
(c) Sassoon.
(d) Burns.

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

15. What do Sassoon and Dr. Rivers talk about when Sassoon returns from swimming?
(a) Anderson.
(b) Graves.
(c) Going home.
(d) His father and Lloyd George.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Rivers believe should be used as a last resort?

2. What does Graves tell Dr. Rivers about Sassoon's board decision?

3. Why did Sassoon want a court-martial?

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

5. What happens to Prior at the opening to Chapter 6?

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