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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of trauma from war do the soldiers suffer in "Mental Cases?"
(a) None.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Physical.
(d) Verbal.

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

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

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

6. Whom did Owen become an assistant to for money?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A vicar.
(c) An accountant.
(d) A professor.

7. What is on the soldier's uniform in "Inspection?"
(a) Lipstick.
(b) Blood.
(c) Gunpowder.
(d) Dirt.

8. In what nation was Owen born?
(a) England.
(b) Wales.
(c) The United States of America.
(d) Ireland.

9. What happened to the weapons when the soldier woke up in "Soldier's Dream?"
(a) They had no ammunition.
(b) They were rusted.
(c) There were not enough of them for all the soldiers.
(d) They were fixed.

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

11. What signal do the soldiers in "Spring Offensive" receive that the battle is starting?
(a) A bugle call.
(b) Word from their commander.
(c) A cold breeze.
(d) The sound of the enemy approaching.

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

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

14. What is stopped in "Soldier's Dream?"
(a) Troop movements.
(b) Machinery.
(c) Arguments.
(d) Combat.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Greater Love," which is the greater love?

3. When is news of the soldier delivered in "The Dead-Beat?"

4. What are men reading in "Smile, Smile, Smile?"

5. What is the first poem in Collected Poems?

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