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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 was worried about Burns while he was gone?
(a) The nurses.
(b) His commanding officer.
(c) Anderson.
(d) His psychiatrist.

2. What book has Prior been reading?
(a) A book about the paranormal.
(b) A comic book.
(c) Dr. Rivers' book on hypnosis.
(d) A book on hypochondria.

3. What does the boy a couple beds away from Sassoon have in a previous hospitalization experience?
(a) A hole through the top of his skull.
(b) A missing eyeball.
(c) A wound that emasculates him.
(d) A missing nose.

4. Where does Dr. Rivers work?
(a) Newington Field.
(b) Castlewood Army Base.
(c) Craighlockhart.
(d) Hazelton Asylum.

5. Who does Prior meet at a pub?
(a) A woman who knows Prior's sister.
(b) Sassoon and a nurse.
(c) A woman who works in munitions.
(d) Anderson and a nurse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Broadbent?

2. What does Rivers tell Bryce about Sassoon?

3. What times does Burns return to the hospital?

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

5. Who is Dr. Rivers interviewing at the opening to Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Rivers try to convince Sassoon to return to the war?

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

4. Why is Prior at the hospital?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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