Life
Which fellow Trench poet influenced Wilfred Owen's work and was actually a dear friend of his?
a) Rupert Brooke
b) Siegfried Sassoon
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Ivor Gurney
b) Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen suffered from shell-shock and was hospitalized in 1915. What modern-day condition is this?
a) Depression
b) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
c) Schizophrenia
d) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
d) PTSD
What main rhetorical device did Owen use in Anthem for Doomed Youth to portray the horrors of the dead soldiers?
a) Allusion
b) Simile
c) Imagery
d) Personification
c) Imagery
How many of Owen's poems were published when he was alive?
a) 5
b) 1
c) 3
d) 4
a) 5
How was Owen killed?
a) The Germans
b) Mosquito bite
c) Disease
d) Famine
a) The Germans
What was the main theme of "Anthem for Doomed Youth"?
a) kids wanting to be in the war because they saw their fathers doing it
b)a choir singing about how cows should've been included in the war
c) loss of young life - represents funeral because they don't get one
d) babies crying over spilled gunpowder
c) loss of young life - represents funeral because they don't get one
How did Owen meet Sassoon?
a) At a bar before entering the war
b) injured and went to hospital in Edinburgh
b) injured and went to hospital in Edinburgh
When did Wilfred Owen die?
a) he's still alive
b) 1918
c) 1920
d) 1933
b) 1918
Where did Wilfred Owen write Anthem for Doomed Youth?
a) The trenches
b) At home, in bed
c) During a date
d) The Edinburgh hospital
d) The Edinburgh hospital
What traumatic experience did the trench poet face resulting in shell-shock and several more poems?
a) Blown into the air by a mortar
b) A German kissed him during battle
c) The opposing side's dog ate his foot that got blown off
d) Got trapped on top of a fellow soldier's remains for several days
a) Blown into the air by a mortar
a) He felt patriotic, justice needed to be served
b) The war was a waste, he pitied its victims
c) War happens, he didn't care
d) He felt grateful for his opportunity to fight
b) The war was a waste, he pitied its victims
Wilfred Owen's poetry dates back to when he was ___ years old?
a) 13
b) 8
c) 16
d) 10
d) 10