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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 do the poems Graves leaves with Rivers talk about?

2. What happens to Prior at the opening to Chapter 6?

3. To whom does Rivers assign Broadbent?

4. Why hasn't Lizzie missed her husband?

5. What does Rivers say when Sassoon asks if he is crazy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is reading a letter at the beginning of Chapter 1 and what is it titled?

3. What does Sassoon tell Dr. Rivers about his medical board and what did the board determine about Sassoon?

4. What does is Prior able to do at the beginning of Chapter 6 and what does he ask Rivers to do?

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

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

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

8. Who is Anderson and why is he at the hospital?

9. What does Sassoon do after his swim with Graves?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are a number of interesting questions raised by this book. Questions that most likely Barker wanted the readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:

1. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the author's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Barker's probable agenda concerning that idea.

2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

Essay Topic 2

Sassoon, the protagonist was a British soldier in the First World War.

1. Research and write an expository essay about how the First World War begins and ends.

2. Research and write an expository essay about the causes of the tremendous numbers of deaths in the First World War.

3. Compare/Contrast the issues in the First World War compared with the issues in the Second World War.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Regeneration, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements (Subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not.

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