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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) Down a road.
(b) This is not known.
(c) In a field.
(d) Through a trench.

2. What caused Owen to mature as a poet, according to the author of the Introduction?
(a) His marriage.
(b) The birth of his first child.
(c) World War I.
(d) His mother's death.

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

4. What happened to the soldier in "The Dead-Beat?"
(a) He was sent home.
(b) He died.
(c) He was court martialed.
(d) He was sent back to the front.

5. According to "At a Cavalry near the Ancre," what do people who love die without?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Honor.
(c) Money.
(d) Hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is news of the soldier delivered in "The Dead-Beat?"

2. What has been hit with artillery in "Le Christianisme?"

3. How many outcomes are there in battle, according to "The Chances?"

4. What does the speaker of "The Show" see slinking into ditches?

5. What did not scare the speaker of "Disabled" when he joined the military?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Owen feel about World War I?

5. Explain Owen's childhood.

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

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

8. What contradiction is found in "Sonnet?"

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

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

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