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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote the first appendix in Collected Poems?
(a) John Keats.
(b) Wilfred Owen.
(c) C. Day Lewis.
(d) Edmund Blunden.

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

4. Who is the speaker in "Shadwell Stair?"
(a) A politician.
(b) An anti-war protestor.
(c) A reporter.
(d) A ghost.

5. What is greater than the sound of instruments, according to "Music?"
(a) Music made by two lovers.
(b) A child's laugh.
(c) A mother saying, "I love you."
(d) The sound of ceased gunfire.

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

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

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

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

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

11. Who is sleeping in "The Kind Ghosts?"
(a) No one.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A woman.
(d) A soldier.

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

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

14. What poem does Blunden most admire of Owen's early works?
(a) "Isabella."
(b) "The Send-Off."
(c) "Dulce Et Decorum Est."
(d) "The Promisers."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the mood of the people walking down the street in "Six o'clock in Princes Street?"

2. What will destroy men, according to "As Bronze may be much Beautiful?"

3. In "On My Songs," the speaker expresses appreciation for the works of ______.

4. Who is the speaker confident he will meet in "The Promisers?"

5. Where may soldiers never reach in "To a Comrade in Flanders?"

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