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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarah's mother say happens in a condom factory?
(a) One in ten condoms is deliberately compromised.
(b) More sex than anywhere else.
(c) Men get revenge on women.
(d) She doesn't mention a condom factory.

2. What does Sarah's mother think of Sarah falling in love with Prior?
(a) That it is an opportunity if she can get him to marry her.
(b) That Sarah is confused.
(c) That Sarah is a fool.
(d) That Sarah is wise.

3. Where does Dr. Rivers go to visit Burns?
(a) London.
(b) Aldeburgh.
(c) Nottingham.
(d) Dublin.

4. Where does Burns go one night during a storm?
(a) His son's tree house.
(b) The cellar.
(c) An old tower.
(d) A cave in which he played as a child.

5. What does Sarah's mother think about the relationship between men and women?
(a) That it is the strongest bond there is.
(b) That men and women are made to learn to love over time.
(c) She has no opinion on the matter.
(d) That love cannot exist between men and women.

6. From where does Sassoon get his name?
(a) A poem by Schiller.
(b) His mother's love of Wagner.
(c) His father's love of Wagner.
(d) A poem by Keats.

7. What does Rivers thinks Burns may do in a couple years?
(a) Make a decent recovery.
(b) Become completely insane.
(c) Kill himself.
(d) He has not speculated.

8. What does Sassoon read to Owen?
(a) A letter from Sassoon's father.
(b) A poem Sassoon writes for Owen.
(c) The book's dedication.
(d) A poem in the book.

9. Where were the "fathers" in the dedication?
(a) Crusaders.
(b) Poets.
(c) Demons.
(d) Jews.

10. Who does Rivers see before leaving?
(a) Owen.
(b) His lover.
(c) His commanding officer.
(d) Sassoon.

11. Why does Prior start feeling hostile towards Sarah?
(a) He thinks she just pities him.
(b) He sees her as part of people who seek to have fun and pleasure all the time.
(c) He thinks she wants him for his social standing.
(d) He is not hostile to her.

12. Of what does Owen say his poem is symbolic?
(a) The reasons for the start of the war.
(b) Dr. Brock's view of the patients at Craiglockhart.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The prince whose assassination starts the war.

13. What sort of problem does Rivers remember he had as a child?
(a) Stammering.
(b) Dyslexia.
(c) A bad limp from polio.
(d) Crossed eyes.

14. What upsets Prior in Chapter 18?
(a) He is granted permanent home service.
(b) He is told he has to stay in the hospital another six months.
(c) He is demoted.
(d) He is sent back to the front.

15. What does Bryce order Dr. Rivers to do?
(a) Take 2 days off.
(b) Reassign Prior to another doctor.
(c) Take three weeks leave.
(d) Put in for reassignment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sassoon see in the doorway when he wakes?

2. What is mimicked?

3. How does Burns seem to Dr. Rivers?

4. What does Sassoon have when he meets with Owen?

5. Why is Madge in the hospital?

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