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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) More sex than anywhere else.
(b) One in ten condoms is deliberately compromised.
(c) Men get revenge on women.
(d) She doesn't mention a condom factory.

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

3. Who did Siegfried's father "war"?
(a) A pigeon and a dove.
(b) Many a kestrel.
(c) Himself.
(d) Many enemy soldiers.

4. Why is Prior embarrassed?
(a) For the way he was afraid of being hypnotized.
(b) Having to explain why he missed their rendezvous.
(c) Learning he was upset just at seeing dead soldiers.
(d) He is not embarrassed.

5. What is mimicked?
(a) War.
(b) Love.
(c) The eagle.
(d) The dove.

6. What does Sassoon say he has decided?
(a) To leave the hospital.
(b) To kill himself.
(c) To ask for a discharge.
(d) To return to the front.

7. Why is Madge in the hospital?
(a) She has the flu.
(b) She puntures her bladder.
(c) She is sick from the munitions dust.
(d) She is hit with sharpnel from a wayward bomb.

8. How does Brock feel about the war and men?
(a) War should be played out by those in power.
(b) Some men enjoy war more when there is no good reason for it.
(c) The common man is the only innocent one in the war.
(d) The war has uprooted men from Earth.

9. Where do Sarah and Madge go?
(a) To find jobs in Birmingham.
(b) To see Madge's lover in the hospital.
(c) To volunteer for the woman's army corps.
(d) To find jobs in London.

10. What is Dr. Rivers doing in Chapter 20?
(a) Writing his observations of Sassoon.
(b) Making his last rounds at Craiglockhart.
(c) Meeting with his lover.
(d) Writing a letter to his father.

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

12. What classes did Rivers' father used to teach?
(a) Speech therapy.
(b) Physics.
(c) Carpentry.
(d) Philosophy.

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

14. Where does Henry Head offer a job to Dr. Rivers?
(a) Central Hospital at Hampstead.
(b) Psychiatric hospital in Offingham.
(c) Central Hospital at Newarington.
(d) He has not offered Rivers a job.

15. To whom is Sarah talking to at the opening to Chapter 17?
(a) Lissel.
(b) Maude.
(c) Prior.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. About whom does Prior make a derogatory comment?

2. What has happened to Willard?

3. What does Sarah's mother think about the relationship between men and women?

4. What sort of problem does Rivers remember he had as a child?

5. How does Burns seem to Dr. Rivers?

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