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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 was the name of the feminist campaign group that Vera was a member of?

2. What was the name of the hospital where Vera worked at her foreign post?

3. In Chapter 11, what is said to have been spreading through Europe?

4. In Chapter 9, where were the nurses in Etaples said to have been sleeping?

5. On what topic did Vera become an accomplished lecturer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What controversy did Vera become involved in in Chapter 10. Who did she meet as a result?

2. Who was Sir Percy Harris? What position did he offer Vera?

3. How did Vera travel to Malta? What worried Vera during her journey to Malta?

4. How did Vera travel back to England for a visit in Chapter 7?

5. What did students who had been involved with the war find hard to adjust to at Oxford?

6. What news did Vera receive from Etaples in Chapter 9?

7. What was life at Etaples like for Vera?

8. What was Vera's first assignment upon arriving at the hospital in France?

9. What was the title of Vera's published novel and what was it about?

10. After returning from Europe, what was Vera's main source of income? What were Vera's career ambitions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the male and female place in society during the first quarter of the 20th century. How did the woman's place in society restrict the ambitions of Brittain? How had the gender roles changed post-war?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of ambition in the autobiography Testament of Youth. What are some examples of ambition in the book? Was Brittain an ambitious person? Why or why not? What were her goals and dreams? How did she go about achieving them, and was she successful?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the struggles faced by Brittain in the book. What struggles did she face in regards to her education? The war? Her family? Her writing?

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