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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Dr. Rivers see after supper?
(a) Burns.
(b) No one; Rivers is off duty.
(c) Prior.
(d) Sassoon.

2. Why did Sassoon want a court-martial?
(a) To prove he is innocent.
(b) So they would hang him.
(c) So he could get out of the army.
(d) To get his story out to the public.

3. What do the poems Graves leaves with Rivers talk about?
(a) The look of spring in France.
(b) Sassoon's feelings on the war.
(c) The way the army uses young kids.
(d) How to keep a woman loving you.

4. How is Prior affecting his roommate?
(a) He is causing the roommate to start believing in ghosts.
(b) He is scaring the roommate.
(c) He is making the roommate laugh.
(d) Prior's nightmares are keeping the roommate awake.

5. What does Sassoon do occasionally when answering Rivers' questions?
(a) Closes his eyes.
(b) Falls asleep.
(c) Becomes hostile.
(d) Spits on the floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Burns sit naked?

2. What happens to Burns at the mess hall?

3. What does Campbell think about Sassoon?

4. How long is Prior confined to the hospital?

5. About what do Sassoon and Dr. Rivers talk that is sad?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sassoon notice in the taxi and why does he touch his chest?

2. Who is Wilfred Owen and how does he feel about Sassoon?

3. What does Sassoon tell Dr. Rivers about his medical board and what did the board determine about Sassoon?

4. What does is Prior able to do at the beginning of Chapter 6 and what does he ask Rivers to do?

5. What happened to Prior that sent him to the hospital?

6. What game do Sassoon and Anderson play in Chapter 8 and what does Anderson almost do to Sassoon?

7. In Chapter 4 what does Burns do when he leaves the hospital for part of a day?

8. What does Prior continue to ask Rivers for and what does he show Rivers? What is Rivers' response?

9. What does Sassoon do after his swim with Graves?

10. What does Dr. Brock suggest to Rivers about Sassoon?

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