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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About what is Sassoon disappointed?
(a) That his Declaration is dismissed.
(b) That he cannot get back into the war.
(c) That his Declaration is taken too seriously.
(d) That he is to be discharged.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What mental state is more common for enlisted men than officers?
(a) Hysteria.
(b) Suicidal tendencies.
(c) Insubordination.
(d) Mutism.

11. Who plays golf together?
(a) Anderson and Sassoon.
(b) Anderson and Prior.
(c) Sassoon and Owen.
(d) Rivers and Prior.

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

13. What is Dr. Rivers' response to Prior's request?
(a) He calls Prior's father.
(b) He says the private rooms are only for the violent patients.
(c) He says Prior is not eligible for a discharge.
(d) He refuses it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sassoon react to Dr. Rivers' taunts?

2. Where does Burns sit naked?

3. How long is Prior confined to the hospital?

4. What does Burns see where he is?

5. Why hasn't Lizzie missed her husband?

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