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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Sassoon have when he meets with Owen?
(a) A book.
(b) Very expensive wine.
(c) A gun.
(d) A suitcase.

7. Why does Charles Rivers have to kill one of his chickens?
(a) It is ill.
(b) It keeps cracking the other chickens' eggs.
(c) It attacked another chicken.
(d) They need the food.

8. Why does Prior want to return to the war?
(a) To regain his memories completely.
(b) To pay back the enemy.
(c) To bolster his chances in future politics.
(d) He does not want to return.

9. How does Sarah reassure Prior?
(a) By saying she does not care why he is at Craiglockhart.
(b) By saying that she has a brother at another hospital like Craiglockhart.
(c) By saying that she understands the pressures he is under.
(d) By saying that none of the patients wear their Craiglockhart badges while in town.

10. What does Dr. Rivers' brother contract in the East?
(a) Dengue Fever.
(b) Yellow Fever.
(c) Polio.
(d) Malaria.

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

12. Where does Dr. Rivers go on leave?
(a) To France.
(b) To the Mediterrean.
(c) To visit his brother on a chicken farm.
(d) To Ireland.

13. Why is Charles Rivers' cat morose?
(a) The cat is declawed to protect the chickens.
(b) It is not morose.
(c) There are three dogs to the one cat.
(d) From living on a farm full of birds the cat is not allowed to kill.

14. What is the purpose of Dr. Rivers' brother having a chicken farm?
(a) To please his wife.
(b) To please their parents.
(c) As a social experiment.
(d) To be out in the fresh air a lot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a first for Sarah and Prior?

2. What does Sassoon read to Owen?

3. What surprises Prior when he sees Sarah in the daylight for the first time?

4. To what does Willard attribute what happens to him?

5. How is Dr. Yealland's bedside manner?

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