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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a first for Sarah and Prior?
(a) A fight.
(b) Privacy.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A misunderstanding about Prior's intentions.

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

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

5. What does Sassoon believe about one of Owen's poems?
(a) Its subject matter is dull.
(b) It is rather mediocre.
(c) It is ready to be published nationally.
(d) Its rhythm is uneven.

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

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

8. Into where does Prior sneak?
(a) The racetrack.
(b) The munitions factory.
(c) The officer's club.
(d) Sarah's room.

9. What surprises Prior when he sees Sarah in the daylight for the first time?
(a) How yellow her skin is.
(b) How bad her left hand shakes.
(c) Nothing.
(d) That she cannot talk in full sentences without being breathless.

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

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

12. Who is Sassoon on his way to see at the end of Chapter 18?
(a) Bryce.
(b) A board of inquiry.
(c) His parents.
(d) His former commanding officer.

13. What does Sassoon realize about Dr. Rivers?
(a) Dr. Rivers is not sure what he is doing sometimes.
(b) Dr. Rivers holds the hospital together.
(c) Dr. Rivers gets too emotionally involved with the soldiers.
(d) Sassoon has adopted him as a father figure.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening in August at the opening of Chapter 18?

2. Where do Owen and Sassoon meet?

3. What does Owen feel when leaving Sassoon?

4. What does Sarah's mother think Prior wants with Sarah?

5. What does Dr. Rivers' brother contract in the East?

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