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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 64-73.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to "Apologia Pro Poemate Meo," what feeling is fleeting for soldiers in war?
(a) Joy.
(b) Peace.
(c) Anger.
(d) Fear.

2. What did Owen study while he was working as an assistant?
(a) Priesthood.
(b) Library science.
(c) Latin.
(d) Accounting.

3. What does the sentry say he sees later in "The Sentry?"
(a) The speaker.
(b) The sun.
(c) A light.
(d) Nothing.

4. What poet helped Owen with his literary ambitions?
(a) John Keats.
(b) William Carlos Williams.
(c) T. S. Eliot.
(d) Laurent Tailhade.

5. Where was Owen killed?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) Austria.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What attacks the soldiers in "Dulce Et Decorum Est" as they return to the trench?

2. Who is the young man in "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young?"

3. When did Owen arrive on the front as an infantryman in World War I?

4. What caused Owen to mature as a poet, according to the author of the Introduction?

5. Who delivers news of the soldier in "The Dead-Beat?"

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