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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is whispering to the speaker in "Miners?"
(a) The wind.
(b) The artillery.
(c) The fire.
(d) The rain.

2. Where is the hole cut in "Not one Corner...?"
(a) The battlefield.
(b) The speaker's heart.
(c) Europe.
(d) Heaven.

3. What is the barge passing in "Hospital Barge at Cerisy?"
(a) A lock.
(b) A church.
(c) A bridge.
(d) A castle.

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

5. What natural event does the speaker use as a comparison for the start of World War I in "1914?"
(a) An erupting volcano.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A monsoon.
(d) An earthquake.

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

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

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

9. When does the speaker want to be honored in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)?"
(a) After the war.
(b) When his children are grown.
(c) After his death.
(d) In that moment.

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

11. What is being described in "Has Your Soul Sipped?"
(a) The smile of a dying soldier.
(b) The smile of a lover.
(c) The smile of family welcoming a soldier home.
(d) The smile of a soldier whose life has been saved.

12. When was the first appendix written?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1914.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days was Owen unable to bathe, take off his shoes, or sleep properly due to an offensive?

2. What is the first appendix in Collected Poems?

3. According to "Sonnet: To a Child," what do children realize about the world that affects their wisdom?

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

5. What aspect of youth is appreciated in "Sonnet: To a Child?"

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