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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarah ask about at work?
(a) If any of the other women know Dr. Rivers.
(b) If any of the other women know Prior.
(c) Where Madge is.
(d) Advice about continuing to date Prior.

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

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

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

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

6. What had Sassoon revealed at some time in the past to Dr. Rivers?
(a) That he is either homosexual or has homosexual tendencies.
(b) That Prior came on to him.
(c) That his parents have disowned him.
(d) That Sassoon is impotent.

7. What does Sassoon tell Rivers Sassoon will be doing?
(a) Ask for a discharge.
(b) Return to the front.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He'll be dead.

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

9. How does Sarah's mother say a woman loves a man?
(a) Pathetically.
(b) With total absorption.
(c) In the way a tapeworm loves the gut.
(d) In the way a flower loves a bee.

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

11. What does Sassoon hear that wakes him?
(a) A tapping noise.
(b) Someone whispering.
(c) A scream.
(d) An explosion.

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

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

14. Why does Sassoon do what he did in question 141?
(a) He pleads no contest.
(b) He marries the girl.
(c) He is tired of waiting for a decision from the doctors.
(d) He decides it's the best way to cure his memories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who compliments Owen on his poem?

2. What does Sassoon realize about Dr. Rivers?

3. What does Sassoon read to Owen?

4. What is the purpose of Dr. Rivers' brother having a chicken farm?

5. Who does Rivers see before leaving?

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