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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 treasonous.
(b) That it is the ravings of a man in the throes of a breakdown.
(c) That it is written by someone besides Sassoon.
(d) That it has some good arguments.

2. About what is Sassoon disappointed?
(a) That he is to be discharged.
(b) That his Declaration is taken too seriously.
(c) That he cannot get back into the war.
(d) That his Declaration is dismissed.

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

4. What does Rivers tell Bryce about Sassoon?
(a) He didn't care for his arrogance.
(b) He was impressed by him and likes him.
(c) He is probably crazy.
(d) He is just a coward.

5. About what do the two men talk?
(a) Their family history.
(b) Their romantic encounters.
(c) Their financial standing.
(d) War scars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williard believe about himself?

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

3. What has been keeping the entire floor at the hospital awake at night?

4. How does Sassoon feel towards civilians?

5. Where does Burns sit naked?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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