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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) An editor.
(b) They were destroyed accidentally in a fire.
(c) Owen himself.
(d) His mother.

2. Who was Owen's primary literary inspiration?
(a) T. S. Eliot.
(b) Siegfried Sassoon.
(c) William Blake.
(d) John Keats.

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

4. What is the subject of "Bold Horatius" studying?
(a) A garbage can.
(b) A battle strategy.
(c) An enemy.
(d) Roman history.

5. What effect does music have on the speaker in "Music?"
(a) It unnerves him.
(b) It reminds him of home.
(c) It moves him.
(d) It gives him hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Owen experience his first gas attack?

2. What does the speaker wonder about the dead after the war in "The End?"

3. _____________dream of time before the war in "The Roads Also."

4. What was Owen's biggest complaint on the front lines of the war?

5. Where does the speaker kiss the sleeping woman in "The Sleeping Beauty?"

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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