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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. When was Vera's nursing contract with the 1st London General set to expire?

2. In which month did Roland leave for the front in France?

3. Where did Vera receive an appointment to work at the end of Chapter 4?

4. What did Vera do after Roland left for France?

5. What did Vera intend to do after she finished at Oxford?

Short Essay Questions

1. What change occurred in Vera's parents' lives in Chapter 5?

2. Why was Vera ridiculed by the locals in Buxton in Chapter 2?

3. Who were Vera's two friends at boarding school?

4. What illness did Vera and Betty contract in Chapter 6?

5. As Roland's December leave approached, what did Vera begin to think about?

6. What were Vera's living arrangements when she started working at the 1st London General Hospital?

7. What did Vera decide to do after her contract at the hospital ended in Chapter 6?

8. What was Mrs. Heath Jones's influence on Vera?

9. What did Vera have a dream about in Chapter 4?

10. What was Vera's childhood like? What did she like to do as a child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and interpret Brittain's nursing period. Why did she become a nurse? How did she react to the horrors she saw? How did this period of her life affect her? What are some different places she went as a nurse? What are some struggles she faced while nursing?

Essay Topic 2

Outline the career of the author of the autobiography Testament of Youth. What other works did Brittain do? What organizations did Brittain become involved with that influenced her work?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the setting of the book. Why is the setting of "Testament of Youth" an important element of the book? Why was this time and place so influential on Brittain's life?

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