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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days was Owen unable to bathe, take off his shoes, or sleep properly due to an offensive?
(a) Twenty-one days.
(b) One week.
(c) Twelve days.
(d) Ten days.

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

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

4. What will destroy men, according to "As Bronze may be much Beautiful?"
(a) Love.
(b) Freedom.
(c) War.
(d) Peace.

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

6. How does the speaker want to be remembered in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)?"
(a) As a war hero.
(b) As a loyal citizen.
(c) No different than any other soldiers.
(d) As an American.

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

8. Who controls the speaker's life in "The Fates?"
(a) The speaker himself.
(b) The speaker does not know.
(c) God.
(d) Fate.

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

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

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

12. In what year did Owen experience his first gas attack?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1916.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is sleeping in "The Kind Ghosts?"

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

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

5. What is the hole called, according to "Not one Corner...?"

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