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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 is sleeping in "The Kind Ghosts?"
(a) No one.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A woman.
2. How many days was Owen unable to bathe, take off his shoes, or sleep properly due to an offensive?
(a) One week.
(b) Twenty-one days.
(c) Ten days.
(d) Twelve days.
3. What time of day does "From My Diary, July 1914" begin?
(a) Mid-morning.
(b) Early morning.
(c) One in the afternoon.
(d) Noon.
4. What will make men better, according to "As Bronze may be much Beautiful?"
(a) Freedom.
(b) War.
(c) Love.
(d) Peace.
5. What does the speaker find in every sound in "All Sounds have been as Music?"
(a) Beauty.
(b) Love.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Peace.
Short Answer Questions
1. "Sonnet Autumnal" uses the end of summer as an analogy for the end of ___________.
2. Whom does the speaker want to stay with in "My Shy Hand?"
3. Who is the speaker confident he will meet in "The Promisers?"
4. Who is the speaker in "Shadwell Stair?"
5. Where is the hole cut in "Not one Corner...?"
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the first appendix in Collected Poems, why were many of Owen's poems destroyed?
2. What is controversial about "Song of Songs?"
3. What are the four gems in "Spells and Incantation?" What does each represent?
4. What does "The Roads Also" reveal about the effects of war?
5. What is personification? How does Owen use it in "Cramped in that Funnelled Hole?"
6. What early poem of Owen's does Blunden admire most? What was the poem's inspiration?
7. Why would Owen rather be remembered as a soldier than a poet in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)?"
8. What is the purpose of "On My Songs?"
9. Why will the soldiers never be as happy as they were as children in "Happiness?"
10. 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?
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