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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker of "Disabled" want someone to do for him?
(a) Put him to bed.
(b) Hug him.
(c) Take him home.
(d) Write to his mother on his behalf.

2. What does the speaker hold up to the sentry in "The Sentry?"
(a) A gun.
(b) A light.
(c) Nothing.
(d) His hand.

3. What are men reading in "Smile, Smile, Smile?"
(a) War propaganda brochures.
(b) Telegrams from superior officers.
(c) Letters from home.
(d) The newspaper.

4. A statue of whom is left intact in "Le Christianisme?"
(a) Jesus.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) St. Francis of Assisi.
(d) St. Joseph.

5. Whose poems are in Collected Poems?
(a) John Keat's.
(b) William Wordsworth's.
(c) T. S. Eliot's.
(d) Wilfred Owen's.

6. What piece of artillery does the speaker marvel at in "Sonnet?"
(a) A machine gun.
(b) A cannon.
(c) A rifle.
(d) A bomber plane.

7. In what year was Owen born?
(a) The exact year is not known.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1894.

8. What job did Owen take after his position as an assistant?
(a) Grammar school teacher.
(b) University professor.
(c) Tutor.
(d) Accountant.

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

10. What does the speaker hear at dawn in "The Calls?"
(a) Bugles.
(b) Church bells.
(c) Artillery.
(d) A fog-horn.

11. What is the first poem in Collected Poems?
(a) "Insensibility."
(b) "Greater Love."
(c) "Strange Meeting."
(d) "Dulce Et Decorum Est."

12. What happens to the soldier who falls asleep in "Asleep?"
(a) He is captured by the enemy.
(b) He freezes to death.
(c) His shoes are stolen.
(d) He is shot and killed.

13. How many soldiers die in "Dulce Et Decorum Est?"
(a) All of them.
(b) About half of them.
(c) One.
(d) The number is not known.

14. What fate does Jim receive in "The Chances?"
(a) Insanity.
(b) Death.
(c) Capture.
(d) Victory.

15. Who is the old man in "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young?"
(a) Isaac.
(b) Owen.
(c) An unnamed soldier.
(d) Abraham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What signal do the soldiers in "Spring Offensive" receive that the battle is starting?

2. Where is the speaker of "Disabled?"

3. In what season does "Exposure" take place?

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

5. How many soldiers are killed in "The Last Laugh?"

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