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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. What does Prior not remember?
(a) His name.
(b) The terrible thing that happened to him in the war.
(c) That he is in the military.
(d) Where he lives.

2. What is Dr. Rivers' response to Prior's request?
(a) He refuses it.
(b) He says the private rooms are only for the violent patients.
(c) He says Prior is not eligible for a discharge.
(d) He calls Prior's father.

3. For what does Sassoon feel horror?
(a) The slaughter on the fields.
(b) Having to sleep inside.
(c) Being a coward.
(d) The mustard gas.

4. Who plays golf together?
(a) Anderson and Sassoon.
(b) Rivers and Prior.
(c) Sassoon and Owen.
(d) Anderson and Prior.

5. What does Prior want of Dr. Rivers?
(a) To be hypnotized.
(b) Discharge.
(c) For Rivers to talk with Prior's father.
(d) An assignment to a private room.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sassoon feel towards civilians?

2. Where is Prior when he first goes under hypnotism?

3. What happens to Prior at the opening to Chapter 6?

4. How long is Prior confined to the hospital?

5. What did Sassoon do with the answer to question #8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rivers see when Prior's parents visit?

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

3. What does Prior describe to Rivers in Chapter 8?

4. In Chapter 6 why does Rivers see Prior after dinner and what does Prior tell him what is Rivers' response?

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

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

7. What happens in Chapter 3 when Graves arrives at the hospital?

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

9. What does Rivers think about Anderson's vision of Rivers in one of Anderson's dreams?

10. Who is suppose to go on the train with Sassoon and why doesn't he?

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