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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. Why doesn't Dr. Rivers think Prior should smoke?
(a) Prior has asthma.
(b) It smells bad.
(c) It sets a bad example for the enlisted men.
(d) The doctor is afraid for Prior to have matches in his state of mind.

2. About what do Sassoon and Dr. Rivers talk that is sad?
(a) Prior's revelations under hypnosis.
(b) Gordon's death.
(c) The war dragging on another winter.
(d) Nothing; they are trying to have a good time.

3. What does Dr. Rivers believe should be used as a last resort?
(a) Hypnotism.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Gesalt therapy.
(d) Shock therapy.

4. What does Prior find when he returns to the fire bay after a shell hits it?
(a) A conflagration.
(b) The ruined remains of two soldiers who were making tea.
(c) Bits and pieces of six men which he can't sort out.
(d) There is nothing there.

5. With what is the letter writer diagnosed?
(a) Parkinson's disease.
(b) Neurasthenia.
(c) No particular diganosis.
(d) Schizophrenia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sassoon and Dr. Rivers talk about when Sassoon returns from swimming?

2. What does the boy a couple beds away from Sassoon have in a previous hospitalization experience?

3. What does Rivers tell Bryce about Sassoon?

4. What does Rivers think Sassoon might be experiencing?

5. How does Dr. Rivers feel about the declaration from Sassoon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Prior do when he sneaks off the hospital grounds?

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

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

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

8. What is wrong with Broadbent and what does Rivers do about it?

9. What does the writer say in the letter and what consequences has he suffered as the result of the letter?

10. What do Sassoon and Graves talk about when they go swimming in Chapter 4 and what does Sassoon say he remembers about the subject?

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