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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 compare people to in "O World of many Worlds?"
(a) Planets.
(b) Universes.
(c) Gravity.
(d) Stars.

2. "Winter Song" describes what kind of transition?
(a) Musical.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Seasonal.
(d) Literary.

3. What is the hole called, according to "Not one Corner...?"
(a) Hell.
(b) Home.
(c) The Path of Glory.
(d) The Verdict.

4. What die in winter, according to "Winter Song?"
(a) Trees.
(b) The flowers of fall.
(c) Soldiers' hopes.
(d) The colors of fall.

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

6. What poem does Blunden most admire of Owen's early works?
(a) "The Promisers."
(b) "Dulce Et Decorum Est."
(c) "Isabella."
(d) "The Send-Off."

7. "Antaeus: A Fragment" describes a fight between ______ and Antaeus.
(a) Samson.
(b) God.
(c) Gabriel.
(d) Heracles.

8. Where did Owen's father take him twice at the ages of fourteen and sixteen?
(a) The United States.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Ireland.

9. What does the speaker imagine in "The One Remains?"
(a) Eyes.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Hands.
(d) Faces.

10. Until when does the speaker of "The Promisers" search for the person he will meet?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Dark.
(d) The end of the week.

11. What is greater than the sound of instruments, according to "Music?"
(a) The sound of ceased gunfire.
(b) Music made by two lovers.
(c) A mother saying, "I love you."
(d) A child's laugh.

12. What color are the woman's eyes in "The Imbecile?"
(a) Green.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Gray.
(d) Blue.

13. What does the speaker wonder about the dead after the war in "The End?"
(a) If they will live again.
(b) If they feel they died in vain.
(c) If they will be honored.
(d) If they will be remembered.

14. What aspect of youth is appreciated in "Sonnet: To a Child?"
(a) Innocence.
(b) Joy.
(c) Adventure.
(d) Playfulness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "O World of many Worlds" uses several stanzas from what other poem in Collected Poems?

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

3. What emotion is associated with purple in the poem "Purple?"

4. Whom does the speaker want to stay with in "My Shy Hand?"

5. Who is the singer in "Song of Songs?"

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