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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 is Prior embarrassed?
(a) Having to explain why he missed their rendezvous.
(b) He is not embarrassed.
(c) Learning he was upset just at seeing dead soldiers.
(d) For the way he was afraid of being hypnotized.

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

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

4. Who compliments Owen on his poem?
(a) Prior.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Sassoon.
(d) Anderson.

5. What does Owen feel when leaving Sassoon?
(a) Revulsion.
(b) Relief.
(c) A great sense of loss.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Into where does Prior sneak?

3. What surprises Prior when he sees Sarah in the daylight for the first time?

4. Where does Dr. Rivers go to visit Burns?

5. About whom does Prior make a derogatory comment?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Sarah's mother tell her about romance?

6. Why does Rivers visit Henry Head and what does Head offer him?

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

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

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

10. Where does Rivers go on leave and why is that place there for him to visit?

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