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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. Of what does Owen say his poem is symbolic?
(a) Dr. Brock's view of the patients at Craiglockhart.
(b) The reasons for the start of the war.
(c) The prince whose assassination starts the war.
(d) Nothing.

2. Who does Prior see and realize he really likes?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Madge.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Jewel.

3. What does Bryce order Dr. Rivers to do?
(a) Take 2 days off.
(b) Reassign Prior to another doctor.
(c) Put in for reassignment.
(d) Take three weeks leave.

4. What is happening in August at the opening of Chapter 18?
(a) Dr. Rivers is reassigned.
(b) An armistice.
(c) The medical boards.
(d) Another front has opened up in France.

5. Why does Charles Rivers have to kill one of his chickens?
(a) It attacked another chicken.
(b) It is ill.
(c) It keeps cracking the other chickens' eggs.
(d) They need the food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Prior want to return to the war?

2. Who is Sassoon on his way to see at the end of Chapter 18?

3. What has happened to Willard?

4. What classes did Rivers' father used to teach?

5. What does Sassoon say he has decided?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Sarah find out about Madge at work?

3. How does Sarah feel about Prior when he has not seen her for a week and what does he tell her?

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

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

6. What happens to Burns in Chapter 13?

7. Why does Rivers go to Aldebugh?

8. What does Sassoon do about one of Owen's poems?

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

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

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