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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 do the people kiss in "Maundy Thursday?"

2. What is greater than the sound of instruments, according to "Music?"

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

4. "Bold Horatius" is about ____________.

5. What does the speaker realize about the dead in "Miners?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the hole cut in Europe? Why is it called "the Path of Glory?"

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

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

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

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

6. Why is Heracles unable to defeat Antaeus in "Antaeus: A Fragment?"

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

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

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

10. What is controversial about "Song of Songs?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define perspective, and explain its importance in Owen's poetry.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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