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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 is not hostile to her.
(d) He thinks she wants him for his social standing.

2. What does Prior think about Sarah?
(a) That she is a temporary fling.
(b) That he is too good for her.
(c) That she is an attractive woman no matter what.
(d) That she is too good for him.

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

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

5. Who does Sassoon see in the doorway when he wakes?
(a) Orme.
(b) No one.
(c) Dr. Rivers.
(d) Owen.

6. What is Owen's poem about?
(a) Isolde.
(b) Achilles and Hector.
(c) Helen of Troy.
(d) Hercules and Antaeus.

7. What does Rivers spend much time doing while at the chicken farm?
(a) Riding the one horse.
(b) Remembering his childhood.
(c) Cleaning out cages.
(d) Reading fiction.

8. What does Prior believe Sarah should do?
(a) Marry him.
(b) Meet his best friend.
(c) Not see him again.
(d) Pay him in some way for fighting for freedom.

9. What does Owen feel when leaving Sassoon?
(a) Relief.
(b) Revulsion.
(c) Anger.
(d) A great sense of loss.

10. What does Prior not want to happen?
(a) Sarah to learn that he comes from a poor family.
(b) To be returned to the front lines.
(c) Sarah to get pregnant.
(d) To become emotionally involved with Sarah.

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

12. How is Dr. Yealland's bedside manner?
(a) Thorough.
(b) Warm.
(c) Cold and uncaring.
(d) Humorous.

13. Where is Rivers headed?
(a) Edinburgh.
(b) Brussels.
(c) France.
(d) London.

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

15. How does Sarah's mother say men love?
(a) Resentfully.
(b) In the way the sun loves the moon.
(c) In the way a fox loves a hare.
(d) Erratically.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Sassoon revealed at some time in the past to Dr. Rivers?

2. Where do Owen and Sassoon meet?

3. What does Dr. Rivers think about Bryce?

4. What is Dr. Rivers doing in Chapter 20?

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

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