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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rivers say when Sassoon asks if he is crazy?
(a) That as far as he can tell Sassoon is sane.
(b) He doesn't answer the question.
(c) He probably is.
(d) He doesn't have enough information.

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

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

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

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

7. Who is Dr. Rivers interviewing at the opening to Chapter 4?
(a) No one.
(b) Graves.
(c) Anderson.
(d) Sassoon.

8. What times does Burns return to the hospital?
(a) 3 a.m.
(b) 9 p.m.
(c) 6 p.m.
(d) He does not return.

9. What does Broadbent believe?
(a) That Dr. Rivers wants to send him back to die.
(b) That Dr. Rivers can cure him.
(c) That he is a British captain.
(d) That the Germans have invaded England.

10. What happens to Prior at the opening to Chapter 6?
(a) He attacks a nurse.
(b) He tries to kill himself.
(c) He regains his ability to speak.
(d) He dies.

11. To whom does Rivers assign Broadbent?
(a) The hospital at Cornwall.
(b) Burns.
(c) The hospital in London.
(d) Bryce.

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

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

14. What does Head to to Rivers in Dr. Rivers' dream?
(a) Shows him what is wrong with each man at the hospital.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Turns him into a vampire.
(d) Pokes him in the arm with a needle.

15. What causes Anderson to almost beat his golfing partner?
(a) The partner insults Anderson's commanding officer.
(b) The partner cheats by moving Anderson's ball.
(c) The partner beats Anderson at the 17th hole.
(d) The partner insults Anderson's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Sassoon instead of a court-martial?

2. What does Williard believe about himself?

3. What strikes Rivers as odd about Sassoon?

4. What does Dr. Brock suggest to Dr. Rivers?

5. Who does Broadbent say is ill?

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