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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. Where may soldiers never reach in "To a Comrade in Flanders?"
(a) The sky.
(b) Home.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Earth.

2. How does the speaker want to be remembered in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)?"
(a) As a loyal citizen.
(b) No different than any other soldiers.
(c) As a war hero.
(d) As an American.

3. What is greater than the sound of instruments, according to "Music?"
(a) A mother saying, "I love you."
(b) The sound of ceased gunfire.
(c) A child's laugh.
(d) Music made by two lovers.

4. What is the barge passing in "Hospital Barge at Cerisy?"
(a) A church.
(b) A bridge.
(c) A castle.
(d) A lock.

5. Who wins the fight in "Antaeus: A Fragment?"
(a) This is not known.
(b) Antaeus's enemy.
(c) There is no winner; they both give up.
(d) Antaeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would be a glorious way to die, according to "Storm?"

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

3. "O World of many Worlds" uses several stanzas from what other poem in Collected Poems?

4. Who wrote the first appendix in Collected Poems?

5. Who destroyed many of Owen's poems?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why is the death of the soldier a sweet experience in "Has Your Soul Sipped?"

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

7. Into what two phases does Blunden divide Owen's life as a poet? What do these titles mean?

8. 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?

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

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

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