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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 50-63.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the speaker try to wake a soldier in "Futility?"
(a) By tossing water in his face.
(b) By moving him into the sun.
(c) By shaking him.
(d) With smelling salts.

2. Owen's preface says his poems are about __________.
(a) Himself.
(b) Men.
(c) Love.
(d) War.

3. "Apologia Pro Poemate Meo" discusses the occasional ______ of war.
(a) Justifications.
(b) Retreats.
(c) Joys.
(d) Ends.

4. Who wrote the introduction in Collected Poems?
(a) Wilfred Owen.
(b) C. Day Lewis.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) John Keats.

5. Who rises above the battlefield with the speaker in "The Show?"
(a) Death.
(b) His father.
(c) An enemy soldier.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two items does a soldier come to appreciate in "Arms and the Boy?"

2. What happens to the soldier at the end of "Conscious?"

3. Whose love is dying, according to "Exposure?"

4. Which of the following did Owen's parents NOT expose him to?

5. Who is the old man in "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young?"

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