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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 Owens and Sassoon do?

2. What does Sassoon do?

3. Why does Prior start feeling hostile towards Sarah?

4. How does Burns seem to Dr. Rivers?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Owen and Sassoon do the last time they meet?

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

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

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

6. What does Rivers try to do for his brother while on leave but what does he end up doing?

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

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

9. What happens to Burns in Chapter 13?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Regeneration is the first book in a trilogy involving Sassoon, Rivers and others. Discuss the following.

1. What are two advantages of writing several novels about the same characters? Use examples.

2. What are two disadvantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Do you prefer to read a stand-alone book, or a series of books with the same main characters? Explain your response.

4. Do you think it is easier or more difficult (or about the same) to write a stand-alone book versus one in a series? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Regeneration is set in an actual historical war.

1. Do you think Regeneration qualifies as an historical fiction or political protest? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. If much of the events in the book are historical, what surprises you about the way the events play out?

3. Do you think the culture of that era (early 1900s) is more or less advanced than you imagined? Explain. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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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