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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. "Antaeus: A Fragment" describes a fight between ______ and Antaeus.
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Heracles.
(c) Samson.
(d) God.

2. What is the hole called, according to "Not one Corner...?"
(a) The Verdict.
(b) Home.
(c) The Path of Glory.
(d) Hell.

3. Who organized many of Owen's remaining poems?
(a) John Keats.
(b) Edmund Blunden.
(c) Siegfried Sassoon.
(d) Owen himself.

4. What was Owen's biggest complaint on the front lines of the war?
(a) The mud.
(b) The crowds.
(c) The food.
(d) The cold.

5. What is the subject of "To Eros?"
(a) War.
(b) Death.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does music have on the speaker in "Music?"

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

3. The speaker wants ______________ to honor him in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)."

4. What is the barge passing in "Hospital Barge at Cerisy?"

5. Who wrote the first appendix in Collected Poems?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to the first appendix in Collected Poems, why were many of Owen's poems destroyed?

3. Into what two phases does Blunden divide Owen's life as a poet? What do these titles mean?

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

5. What does the woman represent in "The Kind Ghosts?" Why is she sleeping?

6. What is personification? How does Owen use it in "Cramped in that Funnelled Hole?"

7. What is the purpose of "On My Songs?"

8. What literary reference does Owen make in "Hospital Barge at Cerisy?" What does this reveal about the hospital barge?

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

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

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