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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Until when does the speaker of "The Promisers" search for the person he will meet?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Dark.
(c) The end of the week.
(d) Dinner.

2. When does the speaker want to be honored in "To My Friend: (With an Identity Disk)?"
(a) After the war.
(b) When his children are grown.
(c) After his death.
(d) In that moment.

3. _____________dream of time before the war in "The Roads Also."
(a) Houses.
(b) Trees.
(c) Rivers.
(d) Dogs.

4. On what river is the barge in "Hospital Barge at Cerisy?"
(a) The Nile.
(b) The Somme.
(c) The Rhein.
(d) The Mississippi.

5. What is being described in "Has Your Soul Sipped?"
(a) The smile of a lover.
(b) The smile of a dying soldier.
(c) The smile of a soldier whose life has been saved.
(d) The smile of family welcoming a soldier home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the speaker search for a man in "Elegy in April and September?"

2. What is the first appendix in Collected Poems?

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

4. Whom is the speaker running next to in "To--?"

5. What does the speaker see in "My Shy Hand?"

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

7. What does "The Roads Also" reveal about the effects of war?

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

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

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

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