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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 color are the woman's eyes in "The Imbecile?"

2. What poem does Blunden most admire of Owen's early works?

3. How does the speaker want to be remembered in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)?"

4. What is set on a track in "This is the Track?"

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the purpose of "On My Songs?"

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how Wilfred Owen's experience as a soldier in World War I affected his poetry.

Essay Topic 2

What role does sound play in Owen's poetry? Use at least two examples of poems to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how Owen's faith, beginning with his position as an assistant to a vicar. How and why does his faith change throughout his life?

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