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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where do Owen and Sassoon meet?
(a) The basement of Craiglockhart.
(b) The Conservative Club.
(c) The pub in a nearby town.
(d) The forest near Craiglockhart.

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Burns seem to Dr. Rivers?
(a) Healthy.
(b) Burns acts as if he does not know Dr. Rivers.
(c) Odd but sane.
(d) Deranged.

10. Where were the "fathers" in the dedication?
(a) Demons.
(b) Poets.
(c) Crusaders.
(d) Jews.

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

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

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

14. What does Sassoon do?
(a) Kills himself.
(b) Leaves the hospital.
(c) Gets a girl pregnant.
(d) Sits for a court martial for insubordination.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does Sassoon get his name?

2. What does Sarah ask about at work?

3. Who does Sassoon see in the doorway when he wakes?

4. How does Sarah reassure Prior?

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

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