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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What has been keeping the entire floor at the hospital awake at night?
(a) The soldiers drilling on the commons.
(b) Inexplicable cawing noises.
(c) Ghosts of soldiers screaming.
(d) Anderson's nightmares.

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

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

6. Where do Sassoon and Graves go for some recreation?
(a) The pool hall.
(b) Swimming.
(c) The polo field.
(d) A gentleman's club.

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

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

9. Why does Graves miss the train?
(a) He is late.
(b) He broke his leg.
(c) He was transferred.
(d) He decided not to come.

10. What does Rivers think about as he prepares to sleep the night of Prior's hypnotism?
(a) His sister who is killed driving an ambulance.
(b) Prior's confession.
(c) His brother who is killed the year before.
(d) Rivers needs a vacation.

11. What confuses Sarah Lumb?
(a) She is not confused, just angry.
(b) Why Lizzie is interested in the same man that Sarah is.
(c) Why men from the hospital receive leave to bother the local girls.
(d) Why Prior never returns to see her when they agreed to meet again.

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

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

14. About what do Sassoon and Dr. Rivers talk that is sad?
(a) Prior's revelations under hypnosis.
(b) Nothing; they are trying to have a good time.
(c) Gordon's death.
(d) The war dragging on another winter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Sassoon want a court-martial?

2. How does Sassoon feel towards civilians?

3. Why does Rivers reassign Broadbent?

4. What causes Anderson to almost beat his golfing partner?

5. How long is Prior confined to the hospital?

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