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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 do most of the people believe who read Sassoon's Declaration?
(a) That it is written by someone besides Sassoon.
(b) That it is treasonous.
(c) That it is the ravings of a man in the throes of a breakdown.
(d) That it has some good arguments.

2. Where does Prior go?
(a) To the forest.
(b) Back to the front.
(c) Sick bay.
(d) Home.

3. What does the letter Dr. Rivers is reading say?
(a) He is being moved to a the hospital.
(b) The writer will no longer fight in the war.
(c) He is receiving another patient.
(d) His sister is sick.

4. What does Williard believe about himself?
(a) He is a General of the Army.
(b) He is paralyzed from the waist down.
(c) The war is over.
(d) He is the King of England.

5. What mental state is more common for enlisted men than officers?
(a) Suicidal tendencies.
(b) Insubordination.
(c) Hysteria.
(d) Mutism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Burns go?

2. Why does Prior apologize to Rivers?

3. What does Prior find when he returns to the fire bay after a shell hits it?

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

5. Who does Broadbent say is ill?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Prior look to Rivers in Chapter 8 and what is he doing that earns Rivers' disapproval?

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

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

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

8. Why is Prior at the hospital?

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

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

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