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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does the speaker deprive himself of worldly pleasures in "Training?"
(a) To become strong.
(b) To pass the time.
(c) To prepare for capture by enemies.
(d) To endure torture.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does the speaker see in "My Shy Hand?"
(a) A small house.
(b) A lake.
(c) A forest.
(d) A meadow.

14. On what river is the barge in "Hospital Barge at Cerisy?"
(a) The Nile.
(b) The Mississippi.
(c) The Somme.
(d) The Rhein.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What natural event does the speaker use as a comparison for the start of World War I in "1914?"

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

3. At what time of day does "The Unreturning" take place?

4. "Sonnet Autumnal" uses the end of summer as an analogy for the end of ___________.

5. The speaker wants ______________ to honor him in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)."

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