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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What classes did Rivers' father used to teach?
(a) Physics.
(b) Speech therapy.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Carpentry.

3. What do Owens and Sassoon do?
(a) Get drunk.
(b) Write a poem about Craiglockhart.
(c) Have a couple prostitutes to entertain them.
(d) Smoke opium.

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

5. What is wrong with the women who work in the munitions factories?
(a) They are losing their eyesight.
(b) They have a slight tremor.
(c) They have breathing problems.
(d) They all have a yellow tint to their skin.

6. What happens to Madge's unborn baby?
(a) It survives.
(b) It aborts, probably from the side effects of the munitions powder.
(c) It dies from the shrapnel wound.
(d) It dies from the flu Madge has and they have to do a C section.

7. About whom does Prior make a derogatory comment?
(a) Willard.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Anderson.
(d) Sassoon.

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

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

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

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

12. 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 sees her as part of people who seek to have fun and pleasure all the time.
(d) He is not hostile to her.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sassoon do what he did in question 141?

2. Where do Owen and Sassoon meet?

3. What does Sarah's mother think of Sarah falling in love with Prior?

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

5. What is mimicked?

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