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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. How long after Owen's death did World War I end?
(a) Almost a year.
(b) Six months.
(c) Four months.
(d) One week.

2. How do soldiers feel about Death in "The Next War?"
(a) They are friends.
(b) They are afraid.
(c) They are not afraid.
(d) They are enemies.

3. What does the speaker want to happen to the piece of artillery after the war, according to "Sonnet?"
(a) He wants the technology to be shared with others.
(b) He wants to study it.
(c) He wants it to be destroyed.
(d) He wants it to go into a museum.

4. What can the soldiers not forget in "Mental Cases?"
(a) Their fallen comrades.
(b) Gruesome sights from war.
(c) The soldiers they killed.
(d) The fear of being in battle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the squad going when one soldier falls to the ground in "The Dead-Beat?"

2. Where do the soldiers seek refuge in "The Sentry?"

3. A statue of whom is left intact in "Le Christianisme?"

4. In "Greater Love," which is the lesser love?

5. What fate does Jim receive in "The Chances?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What does "Dulce Et Decorum Est" say about war and death?

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

3. What does "S.I.W." stand for? How does this contribute to the soldier dying with a smile?

4. Compare and contrast "Conscious" and "The Sentry."

5. What does the soldier's wish to be put to bed symbolize in "Disabled?"

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

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

8. Explain Owen's childhood.

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

10. What does the speaker of "Smile, Smile, Smile" think of the press? Why?

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