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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 does Broadbent want to visit?
(a) His mother.
(b) His own doctor.
(c) His sweetheart.
(d) His uncle.

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

3. What does Sassoon think about on the train?
(a) His mother's funeral.
(b) His last conversation with Graves.
(c) His brother's death.
(d) Going to the front next month.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Broadbent?

2. Where does Dr. Rivers work?

3. What do the poems Graves leaves with Rivers talk about?

4. Who is giving Dr. Rivers difficulty?

5. What happens to Burns at the mess hall?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Prior at the hospital?

3. What happened to Sassoon's Declaration and how does Sassoon feel about that and what does he and Rivers discuss in Chapter 7 besides this?

4. What is causing Dr. Rivers pain in his head while he is sleeping?

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

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

7. What happens to Prior at the beginning of Chapter 7 and what does Prior have to say about it?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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