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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who organized many of Owen's remaining poems?
(a) Siegfried Sassoon.
(b) Edmund Blunden.
(c) John Keats.
(d) Owen himself.

2. What does the speaker compare people to in "O World of many Worlds?"
(a) Planets.
(b) Gravity.
(c) Stars.
(d) Universes.

3. What does the speaker of "Cramped in that Funnelled Hole" call the hole?
(a) A port in the storm.
(b) The mouth of hell.
(c) Salvation.
(d) A pit.

4. What should the singer use to sing in the morning in "Song of Songs?"
(a) A laugh.
(b) A sigh.
(c) A scream.
(d) A cry.

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

6. Who is sleeping in "The Kind Ghosts?"
(a) No one.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A woman.

7. Where is the hole cut in "Not one Corner...?"
(a) The battlefield.
(b) Europe.
(c) The speaker's heart.
(d) Heaven.

8. What natural event does the speaker use as a comparison for the start of World War I in "1914?"
(a) An erupting volcano.
(b) A monsoon.
(c) A tornado.
(d) An earthquake.

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

10. What is sacrificed to the idol in "Long Ages Past?"
(a) Time.
(b) People.
(c) An animal.
(d) Energy.

11. Who is the singer in "Song of Songs?"
(a) A woman.
(b) The speaker.
(c) A prisoner of war.
(d) A soldier.

12. The speaker wants ______________ to honor him in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)."
(a) England.
(b) His fellow soldiers.
(c) His enemies.
(d) His family.

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

14. "Sonnet Autumnal" uses the end of summer as an analogy for the end of ___________.
(a) War.
(b) Life.
(c) A love.
(d) A dream.

15. What effect does music have on the speaker in "Music?"
(a) It unnerves him.
(b) It moves him.
(c) It reminds him of home.
(d) It gives him hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Bold Horatius" is about ____________.

2. Which of the following is NOT used in "Spells and Incantation?"

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

4. When were the soldiers happy, according to "Happiness?"

5. What does one person see news of in the newspaper in "Six o'clock in Princes Street?"

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