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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who controls the speaker's life in "The Fates?"
(a) Fate.
(b) The speaker himself.
(c) The speaker does not know.
(d) God.

2. "Sonnet Autumnal" uses the end of summer as an analogy for the end of ___________.
(a) Life.
(b) A love.
(c) War.
(d) A dream.

3. How does the speaker want to be remembered in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)?"
(a) No different than any other soldiers.
(b) As a war hero.
(c) As a loyal citizen.
(d) As an American.

4. What time of day does "From My Diary, July 1914" end?
(a) At sunset.
(b) Midnight.
(c) When the stars come out.
(d) Mid-evening.

5. What sound replaces the bugles in "Bugles Sang?"
(a) Artillery.
(b) Silence.
(c) Bells.
(d) Birds.

6. Who organized many of Owen's remaining poems?
(a) Edmund Blunden.
(b) John Keats.
(c) Owen himself.
(d) Siegfried Sassoon.

7. What is the subject of "Bold Horatius" studying?
(a) An enemy.
(b) A battle strategy.
(c) Roman history.
(d) A garbage can.

8. Where may soldiers never reach in "To a Comrade in Flanders?"
(a) The sky.
(b) Home.
(c) Earth.
(d) Heaven.

9. When were the soldiers happy, according to "Happiness?"
(a) In the moments before battle.
(b) When they were children.
(c) When they were in love.
(d) In the moments after battle.

10. What will destroy men, according to "As Bronze may be much Beautiful?"
(a) Love.
(b) War.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Peace.

11. What was Owen's biggest complaint on the front lines of the war?
(a) The food.
(b) The cold.
(c) The crowds.
(d) The mud.

12. In "On My Songs," the speaker expresses appreciation for the works of ______.
(a) Artists.
(b) Musicians.
(c) Poets.
(d) Soldiers.

13. What should the singer use to sing in the morning in "Song of Songs?"
(a) A scream.
(b) A laugh.
(c) A cry.
(d) A sigh.

14. What time of day does "From My Diary, July 1914" begin?
(a) Noon.
(b) Mid-morning.
(c) One in the afternoon.
(d) Early morning.

15. Who was Owen's primary literary inspiration?
(a) William Blake.
(b) T. S. Eliot.
(c) Siegfried Sassoon.
(d) John Keats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the speaker search for a man in "Elegy in April and September?"

2. What does the speaker realize about the dead in "Miners?"

3. What do the people kiss in "Maundy Thursday?"

4. What effect does music have on the speaker in "Music?"

5. Where is someone sleeping in "The Kind Ghosts?"

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