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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 happens to Burns at the mess hall?
(a) He falls asleep and his face falls in his food.
(b) He is attacked by another patient.
(c) Nothing happens.
(d) He gets sick.

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

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

4. Why does Rivers reassign Broadbent?
(a) So Rivers does not have to deal with the man.
(b) Because Broadbent's family has a great deal of influence.
(c) Because Craiglockhart is full.
(d) Because Broadbent is so deranged.

5. Who does Prior insult in a drunken state?
(a) Rivers.
(b) Anderson.
(c) The hospital matron.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Prior wake up most of the people in the hospital?

3. What does Rivers tell Bryce about Sassoon?

4. How does Prior respond to Rivers' offer to hypnotize him?

5. What does Sassoon think about on the train?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Anderson and why is he at the hospital?

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

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

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

8. Who is reading a letter at the beginning of Chapter 1 and what is it titled?

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

10. What happens to Burns in Chapter 2 and what is Rivers' response?

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