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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. Who destroyed many of Owen's poems?
(a) His mother.
(b) Owen himself.
(c) An editor.
(d) They were destroyed accidentally in a fire.

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

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

4. Until when does the speaker of "The Promisers" search for the person he will meet?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Midnight.
(c) The end of the week.
(d) Dark.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is set on a track in "This is the Track?"

2. At what time of day does "The Unreturning" take place?

3. What will make men better, according to "As Bronze may be much Beautiful?"

4. What is the hole called, according to "Not one Corner...?"

5. What is being described in "Has Your Soul Sipped?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Owen's first gas attack lead him to realize about war?

2. Why will the soldiers never be as happy as they were as children in "Happiness?"

3. What early poem of Owen's does Blunden admire most? What was the poem's inspiration?

4. Why doesn't the speaker grow old in "To the Bitter Sweet-heart: a Dream?" What does this imply?

5. Why is the woman in "The Imbecile" an imbecile? Who thinks this of her?

6. Who might the man be that the speaker is going to meet in "The Promisers?" What does it mean that the speaker never meets him?

7. Why is Heracles unable to defeat Antaeus in "Antaeus: A Fragment?"

8. What is controversial about "Song of Songs?"

9. What does "The Roads Also" reveal about the effects of war?

10. Compare and contrast "The Fates" with "This is the Track."

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