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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. When does the speaker want to be honored in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)?"
(a) When his children are grown.
(b) After the war.
(c) After his death.
(d) In that moment.

2. "O World of many Worlds" uses several stanzas from what other poem in Collected Poems?
(a) "This is the Track."
(b) "Wild With All Regrets."
(c) "Song of Songs."
(d) "Dulce Et Decorum Est."

3. What natural event does the speaker use as a comparison for the start of World War I in "1914?"
(a) A monsoon.
(b) An erupting volcano.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A tornado.

4. What should the singer use to sing in the morning in "Song of Songs?"
(a) A cry.
(b) A laugh.
(c) A sigh.
(d) A scream.

5. What will destroy men, according to "As Bronze may be much Beautiful?"
(a) Freedom.
(b) War.
(c) Love.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the speaker search for a man in "Elegy in April and September?"

2. What time of day does "From My Diary, July 1914" end?

3. Who wrote the first appendix in Collected Poems?

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

5. What die in winter, according to "Winter Song?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of "Winter Song?"

2. What are the four gems in "Spells and Incantation?" What does each represent?

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

4. Give at least four references to the afterlife in "To a Comrade in Flanders."

5. Why would Owen rather be remembered as a soldier than a poet in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)?"

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

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

8. How are "To Eros" and "My Shy Hand" different from the other poems in the section?

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

10. What is the hole cut in Europe? Why is it called "the Path of Glory?"

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