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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 would be a glorious way to die, according to "Storm?"
(a) For the love of a woman.
(b) Defending one's fellow soldiers.
(c) Getting struck by lightning.
(d) Suicide.

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

3. Whom is the speaker running next to in "To--?"
(a) An angel.
(b) An image of himself.
(c) A ghost.
(d) A girl.

4. Who wrote the first appendix in Collected Poems?
(a) C. Day Lewis.
(b) John Keats.
(c) Wilfred Owen.
(d) Edmund Blunden.

5. "Winter Song" describes what kind of transition?
(a) Literary.
(b) Seasonal.
(c) Musical.
(d) Artistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who controls the speaker's life in "The Fates?"

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

3. On what river is the barge in "Hospital Barge at Cerisy?"

4. What should the singer use to sing in the evening in "Song of Songs?"

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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