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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 50-63.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Owen study while he was working as an assistant?
(a) Latin.
(b) Library science.
(c) Accounting.
(d) Priesthood.

2. What does the speaker of "The Show" see slinking into ditches?
(a) Civilians.
(b) Caterpillars.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Soldiers.

3. Whom is the speaker writing to in "The Letter?"
(a) His father.
(b) His wife.
(c) His sister.
(d) His mother.

4. Who wrote the introduction in Collected Poems?
(a) Wilfred Owen.
(b) John Keats.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) C. Day Lewis.

5. How does the speaker try to wake a soldier in "Futility?"
(a) By shaking him.
(b) By moving him into the sun.
(c) With smelling salts.
(d) By tossing water in his face.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the old man in "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young?"

2. What does the speaker hold up to the sentry in "The Sentry?"

3. Men who become immune to the horrors of war are what, according to "Insensibility?"

4. What attacks the soldiers in "Dulce Et Decorum Est" as they return to the trench?

5. Owen wonders if _________ will greet the soldiers in "The Send-Off."

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