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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 realize about the dead in "Miners?"
(a) They did not die honorably.
(b) They will not be remembered.
(c) They will not return to the earth.
(d) They are still with him.

2. What emotion is associated with purple in the poem "Purple?"
(a) Pride.
(b) Joy.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Fear.

3. What fairy tale is a reworking of Blunden's favorite of Owen's early works?
(a) "Cinderella."
(b) "Beauty and the Beast."
(c) "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."
(d) "The Little Mermaid."

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

5. What is the subject of "To Eros?"
(a) Friendship.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) War.

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

7. Which of the following is NOT used in "Spells and Incantation?"
(a) Emeralds.
(b) Pearls.
(c) Rubies.
(d) Diamonds.

8. What does "I saw his Round Mouth's Crimson" describe?
(a) Love.
(b) Birth.
(c) Battle.
(d) Death.

9. What effect does music have on the speaker in "Music?"
(a) It gives him hope.
(b) It unnerves him.
(c) It moves him.
(d) It reminds him of home.

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

11. "O World of many Worlds" uses several stanzas from what other poem in Collected Poems?
(a) "Wild With All Regrets."
(b) "Dulce Et Decorum Est."
(c) "This is the Track."
(d) "Song of Songs."

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

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

14. What do the people kiss in "Maundy Thursday?"
(a) The priest's ring.
(b) The air.
(c) Each other.
(d) A silver cross.

15. What does one person see news of in the newspaper in "Six o'clock in Princes Street?"
(a) An upcoming festival.
(b) The war.
(c) A cease fire.
(d) His brother's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the first appendix in Collected Poems?

2. _____________dream of time before the war in "The Roads Also."

3. When was the first appendix written?

4. What does the speaker wonder about the dead after the war in "The End?"

5. Who wins the fight in "Antaeus: A Fragment?"

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