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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 greater than the sound of instruments, according to "Music?"

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

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

4. What emotion is associated with purple in the poem "Purple?"

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the four gems in "Spells and Incantation?" What does each represent?

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

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

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

6. Why would Owen rather be remembered as a soldier than a poet in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)?"

7. 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?

8. According to the first appendix in Collected Poems, why were many of Owen's poems destroyed?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define personification and explain how Owen used it in his poetry.

Essay Topic 2

Explain Blunden's speculations about Owen's life and career if he had survived World War I. Do you agree with his assessment? Why or why not?

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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