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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is being described in "Has Your Soul Sipped?"

2. "Antaeus: A Fragment" describes a fight between ______ and Antaeus.

3. What is the hole called, according to "Not one Corner...?"

4. What does "I saw his Round Mouth's Crimson" describe?

5. What die in winter, according to "Winter Song?"

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is controversial about "Song of Songs?"

3. What does the speaker compare people to in "O World of many Worlds?" What does he compare himself to?

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the overall tone of Owen's poems about war? How do you know? Include a definition of tone in your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the psychological toll war took on soldiers, using at least one poem to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Define elegy. What are the characteristics of an elegy? Explain how "Elegy in April and September" fits into this definition of an elegy.

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