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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. Where are the soldiers walking in "At a Cavalry near the Ancre?"
(a) Through a trench.
(b) Down a road.
(c) This is not known.
(d) In a field.

2. Where does the speaker of "Strange Meeting" realize he is?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Hell.
(c) At home.
(d) France.

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

4. In what year did Owen leave home?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1912.

5. Owen wonders if _________ will greet the soldiers in "The Send-Off."
(a) A celebration.
(b) The government.
(c) A family.
(d) Relief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are soldiers massing in "Spring Offensive?"

2. What is causing the speaker in "A Terre" to lose part of his body?

3. What caused Owen to mature as a poet, according to the author of the Introduction?

4. What piece of artillery does the speaker marvel at in "Sonnet?"

5. What is the first poem in Collected Poems?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain Owen's childhood.

3. What does Lewis say about poets who came from World War I as compared to World War II?

4. What are the sounds the speaker of "The Calls" hears that mark the passing of the day?

5. Why do soldiers laugh at death in "The Next War?" What does this reveal about war?

6. Why does the soldier's letter to his wife in "The Letter" not tell the actual conditions of war?

7. What does "Le Christianisme" imply about the role of religion in war?

8. Compare and contrast the Biblical story of Abraham and Isaac with the account in "The Parable of the Young Man and the Old."

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

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

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