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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. What time of day does "From My Diary, July 1914" end?
(a) At sunset.
(b) When the stars come out.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Mid-evening.

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

3. What do the people kiss in "Maundy Thursday?"
(a) Each other.
(b) The air.
(c) The priest's ring.
(d) A silver cross.

4. When was the first appendix written?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1919.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of "Bold Horatius" studying?

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

3. What emotion is associated with purple in the poem "Purple?"

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

5. What does the speaker of "Cramped in that Funnelled Hole" call the hole?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the contrast in "Six o' clock in Princes Street?"

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the speaker compare people to in "O World of many Worlds?" What does he compare himself to?

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

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