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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 did Vera make notes for in Chapter 10?

2. In Chapter 7, where was there talk that the hospital staff may be sent from Vera's original foreign post?

3. Why did Vera and Betty grow apart in Chapter 7?

4. After her brother's death, what did Vera lose interest in?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Vera clash with in Chapter 10?

2. What did Vera find out when she reapplied for foreign service in Chapter 9?

3. Where did Vera and Winifred decide to travel to in Chapter 11 and why?

4. Why did Vera and Betty grow apart in Malta?

5. What did Roland's mother help Vera to do in Chapter 9?

6. What did Oxford allow for the first time after the war, and what did Vera think of this?

7. What was life at Etaples like for Vera?

8. In Chapter 11, what were Vera's thoughts on marriage?

9. In Chapter 8, where did Vera ask to be sent for her next nursing assignment?

10. Where did Vera live while working at St. Jude's?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of death in the autobiography Testament of Youth. What are some examples of death in the autobiography? Who died and how did why? How did Brittain handle these deaths? How did they affect her?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of fear in the autobiography Testament of Youth. What are some examples of fear in the book? What was Brittain afraid of and why? How did this affect her? How did she deal with her fears? Were her fears realized?

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