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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What marks the passing of the soldiers in "Anthem for Doomed Youth?"
(a) Gunfire.
(b) Bells.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Tears.

2. What does the sentry say about himself in "The Sentry?"
(a) He knows how to help them escape.
(b) He is a friend.
(c) He plans to kill them if they fall asleep.
(d) He is blind.

3. Who is the old man in "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young?"
(a) Owen.
(b) Abraham.
(c) An unnamed soldier.
(d) Isaac.

4. How many soldiers die in "Dulce Et Decorum Est?"
(a) All of them.
(b) About half of them.
(c) The number is not known.
(d) One.

5. Whose poems are in Collected Poems?
(a) Wilfred Owen's.
(b) T. S. Eliot's.
(c) William Wordsworth's.
(d) John Keat's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Owen take after his position as an assistant?

2. What job is the speaker of "A Terre" willing to do?

3. Who delivers news of the soldier in "The Dead-Beat?"

4. Who wrote the introduction in Collected Poems?

5. In what season does "Exposure" take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of poet does Lewis think Owen would have been, had he survived the war?

2. Who "smote" the soldiers suffering from psychological trauma in "Mental Cases?"

3. What is the worst possible outcome in battle, according to "The Chances?" Why?

4. What do each of the soldiers cry out for in "The Last Laugh?"

5. What are the five possible outcomes in battle, according to "The Chances?"

6. What does "Insensibility" say about soldiers who become immune to the horrors of war?

7. What does the speaker see on the battlefield in "The Show?" What do they represent?

8. What do you think is the message of "Spring Offensive?"

9. What does Lewis say about Owen prior to World War I in the Introduction of Collected Poems?

10. Explain Owen's childhood.

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