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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job is the speaker of "A Terre" willing to do?
(a) Beg on the streets.
(b) Sweep floors.
(c) Muck horse stalls.
(d) Clean toilets.

2. According to "At a Cavalry near the Ancre," what do people who love die without?
(a) Honor.
(b) Hate.
(c) Money.
(d) Wisdom.

3. What has been hit with artillery in "Le Christianisme?"
(a) A monastery.
(b) A church.
(c) A cemetery.
(d) An abbey.

4. Where does the speaker believe he is in "Mental Cases?"
(a) On the front.
(b) Home.
(c) Hell.
(d) Prison.

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

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

7. In what season does "Exposure" take place?
(a) Spring.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

8. In what year did Owen leave home?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1910.

9. What happened to the soldier in "The Dead-Beat?"
(a) He was sent back to the front.
(b) He was court martialed.
(c) He died.
(d) He was sent home.

10. How many outcomes are there in battle, according to "The Chances?"
(a) An infinite number.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

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

13. Where did Owen attend college?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Harvard.
(c) London University.
(d) Oxford.

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

15. What does the speaker of "Disabled" remember about the town he is observing?
(a) Children.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Music.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sentry say about himself in "The Sentry?"

2. What job did Owen take after his position as an assistant?

3. What do soldiers know about war in "The Next War?"

4. Who are smiling in pictures in "Smile, Smile, Smile?"

5. What happened to the weapons when the soldier woke up in "Soldier's Dream?"

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