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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the speaker kiss the sleeping woman in "The Sleeping Beauty?"
(a) On the lips.
(b) On the cheek.
(c) On her nose.
(d) On her eyelids.

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

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

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

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

6. What is the first appendix in Collected Poems?
(a) A letter to Owen.
(b) A note from Owen.
(c) A biography of Owen.
(d) A journal by Owen.

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

8. Who destroyed many of Owen's poems?
(a) Owen himself.
(b) They were destroyed accidentally in a fire.
(c) His mother.
(d) An editor.

9. _____________dream of time before the war in "The Roads Also."
(a) Rivers.
(b) Houses.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Trees.

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

11. At what time of day does "The Unreturning" take place?
(a) Sometime in the afternoon.
(b) As night falls.
(c) At dawn.
(d) At midnight.

12. What does the speaker of "Cramped in that Funnelled Hole" call the hole?
(a) A port in the storm.
(b) A pit.
(c) Salvation.
(d) The mouth of hell.

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

14. What would be a glorious way to die, according to "Storm?"
(a) Getting struck by lightning.
(b) Suicide.
(c) For the love of a woman.
(d) Defending one's fellow soldiers.

15. Who is the speaker confident he will meet in "The Promisers?"
(a) A child.
(b) A woman.
(c) His maker.
(d) A man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What die in winter, according to "Winter Song?"

3. Which of the following is NOT used in "Spells and Incantation?"

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

5. Where did Owen's father take him twice at the ages of fourteen and sixteen?

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