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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. Why does Prior start feeling hostile towards Sarah?
(a) He thinks she wants him for his social standing.
(b) He is not hostile to her.
(c) He sees her as part of people who seek to have fun and pleasure all the time.
(d) He thinks she just pities him.

2. What does Sarah's mother think Prior wants with Sarah?
(a) A shoulder to cry on.
(b) For a wife.
(c) A handhold to sanity.
(d) Just sex.

3. What does Sarah's mother think of Sarah falling in love with Prior?
(a) That Sarah is a fool.
(b) That Sarah is wise.
(c) That it is an opportunity if she can get him to marry her.
(d) That Sarah is confused.

4. Into where does Prior sneak?
(a) The racetrack.
(b) Sarah's room.
(c) The munitions factory.
(d) The officer's club.

5. Where is Rivers headed?
(a) France.
(b) London.
(c) Brussels.
(d) Edinburgh.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sassoon see in the doorway when he wakes?

2. What is happening in August at the opening of Chapter 18?

3. How does Sarah's mother say men love?

4. Why does Sassoon do what he did in question 141?

5. What sort of problem does Rivers remember he had as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sassoon meet Graves in Chapter 17 and what does he tell Graves?

2. What are Sassoon and Owen working on together and what are Owen's plans for his future?

3. Who gives Rivers a tour of the National Hospital and what does Rivers thinks of that man's treatment methods?

4. What is Rivers doing in Chapter 20 and why?

5. What happens with Prior and Lumb when they see each other again after a week of not seeing each other?

6. Where does Rivers stay the first night in London and how does he find his new job?

7. What does Sassoon do about the medical boards in August?

8. Why does Rivers go to Aldebugh?

9. What does Rivers do that makes the other board members stare at him?

10. What do Prior and Sarah do at the beginning of Chapter 19?

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