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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sassoon read to Owen?
(a) A letter from Sassoon's father.
(b) The book's dedication.
(c) A poem Sassoon writes for Owen.
(d) A poem in the book.

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

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

4. 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 his parents have disowned him.
(c) That Prior came on to him.
(d) That Sassoon is impotent.

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

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

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

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

9. Where does Henry Head offer a job to Dr. Rivers?
(a) Psychiatric hospital in Offingham.
(b) Central Hospital at Newarington.
(c) Central Hospital at Hampstead.
(d) He has not offered Rivers a job.

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

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

12. What does Sassoon say he has decided?
(a) To leave the hospital.
(b) To ask for a discharge.
(c) To kill himself.
(d) To return to the front.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rivers thinks Burns may do in a couple years?

2. What does Owen feel when leaving Sassoon?

3. How does Sarah's mother say men love?

4. What is Owen's poem about?

5. Where does Dr. Rivers go on leave?

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