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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What wakes Dr. Rivers from his dream state in Part 2, Chapter 10?
(a) Miss Irving.
(b) Night tremors.
(c) The sun.
(d) The doorbell.

2. What happens to Billy in battle, as he heads across the water?
(a) He's invincible.
(b) He's shot.
(c) He has a panic attack.
(d) He faints.

3. When Billy needs his gas mask, what happens?
(a) He cannot reach it.
(b) He puts it on.
(c) It breaks.
(d) His friend puts it on him.

4. What sound do the soldiers often hear?
(a) Planes.
(b) Gunfire.
(c) Roosters crowing.
(d) Screaming.

5. Where is Billy assigned to fight at the end of Part 3, Chapter 15?
(a) He is sent home.
(b) The front line.
(c) At the back of the line.
(d) He is sent to Craiglockhart.

6. In Part 3, Chapter 18, why are few doctors working in the ward?
(a) They have died.
(b) Low wages.
(c) The flu epidemic.
(d) To protest the war.

7. Who does Wansbeck admit to having conversations with?
(a) The deceased woman he almost married.
(b) His mother.
(c) Dr. Rivers.
(d) The ghost of the soldier he killed.

8. How much longer does Billy think the war will continue?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Two years.
(d) He thinks it's ending.

9. What animal does Dr. Rivers see on his visit with Njiru?
(a) Bats.
(b) Doves.
(c) A lion.
(d) A tiger.

10. When does Emele leave the mourning hut?
(a) When Dr. Rivers asks her to.
(b) When the conch shell is blown.
(c) When the boy appears.
(d) When Njiru arrives.

11. What is Billy's unit called?
(a) Commanders of the United Front.
(b) Battle Soldiers One.
(c) Front Line Warriors.
(d) The Company of Second Manchesters.

12. In Part 3, Chapter 17, what type of weapons do Billy's battalion fear they will march against?
(a) Swords.
(b) Grenades.
(c) Guns.
(d) Machetes.

13. While ill, how does Dr. Rivers get news of the war?
(a) Letters from Billy.
(b) Watching the news.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The newspaper.

14. What happens to Longstaffe in Part 2, Chapter 13?
(a) He defects.
(b) He is killed.
(c) He fights Billy.
(d) He is wounded.

15. What surprises Dr. Rivers at the end of Part 3, Chapter 16?
(a) He's assigned to Billy's battalion.
(b) Sarah visits him.
(c) A return of the flu.
(d) Billy is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Billy writing in at the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 11?

2. What type of weather does Dr. Rivers remember from Eddystone?

3. What does the Marshall-of-the-Ten-Wounds plan to build?

4. What are phantasms asking Sassoon?

5. In Part 2, Chapter 11, how do the enlisted men spend their mornings?

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