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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 does one person see news of in the newspaper in "Six o'clock in Princes Street?"

2. Who is the speaker in "Shadwell Stair?"

3. What does the speaker imagine in "The One Remains?"

4. At what time of day does "The Unreturning" take place?

5. Who controls the speaker's life in "The Fates?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the hole cut in Europe? Why is it called "the Path of Glory?"

2. What does the speaker compare people to in "O World of many Worlds?" What does he compare himself to?

3. Why will the soldiers never be as happy as they were as children in "Happiness?"

4. Who might the man be that the speaker is going to meet in "The Promisers?" What does it mean that the speaker never meets him?

5. What early poem of Owen's does Blunden admire most? What was the poem's inspiration?

6. Why is the woman in "The Imbecile" an imbecile? Who thinks this of her?

7. What does the woman represent in "The Kind Ghosts?" Why is she sleeping?

8. What is the tone of "The End" and "The Unreturning?" How do you know?

9. Why would Owen rather be remembered as a soldier than a poet in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)?"

10. What did Owen's first gas attack lead him to realize about war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define allusion and explain how Owen used allusion in his poetry.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the psychological toll war took on soldiers, using at least one poem to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the role of the weather in Owen's poetry.

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