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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. In what year did Owen experience his first gas attack?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1916.

2. What does the speaker realize about the dead in "Miners?"
(a) They are still with him.
(b) They will not be remembered.
(c) They did not die honorably.
(d) They will not return to the earth.

3. What color are the woman's eyes in "The Imbecile?"
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Hazel.
(d) Gray.

4. What emotion is associated with purple in the poem "Purple?"
(a) Sadness.
(b) Joy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Pride.

5. Who is sleeping in "The Kind Ghosts?"
(a) No one.
(b) A woman.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A ghost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first appendix in Collected Poems?

2. Until when does the speaker of "The Promisers" search for the person he will meet?

3. Who is the speaker in "Shadwell Stair?"

4. Whom is the speaker running next to in "To--?"

5. When does the speaker want to be honored in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)?"

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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