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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Prior not remember?

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

3. What does Sassoon think about on the train?

4. About what do the two men talk?

5. What can Prior not do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Prior at the hospital?

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

3. What does Sassoon describe to Dr. Rivers about what happened when he first returned from France and what does he say about it now?

4. How does Prior look to Rivers in Chapter 8 and what is he doing that earns Rivers' disapproval?

5. What happens to Burns in Chapter 2 and what is Rivers' response?

6. In Chapter 4 what does Burns do when he leaves the hospital for part of a day?

7. What happened to Prior that sent him to the hospital?

8. What does Prior do when he sneaks off the hospital grounds?

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

10. What does Prior describe to Rivers in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oftentimes, a book is more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think Regeneration is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Compare Sassoon's feelings about war and his assertion that it is not justified in the case of the First World War, with the ideas many Vietnam draftees expressed.

2. Do you think Sassoon's reaction to war is a common reaction for soldiers? Why or why not?

3. There is an idea that rich, political persons declare war but the common, poor person fights them. Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of manipulation and power in Regeneration. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with manipulation and power? Why? What are some symbols of manipulation and power? Symbols of powerlessness? What characters seem powerless?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of war in Regeneration. Why is Britain engaged in a war? What are some symbols of war that occur in the book? Is the war justified?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of death. How does the world of Sassoon's time seem to view death? Who tries to avoid killing? Who seems to kill for frivolous reasons? Who seems afraid of dying? Not afraid? Who meets death gracefully? In resignation? With joy? With fear?

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