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Poetry of World War One

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  1. 1Who wrote "We are the Dead. Short days ago / We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, / Loved and were loved, and now we lie / In Flanders fields"?
    1. AIsaac Rosenberg
    2. BThomas Hardy
    3. CJohn McCrae
    4. DWilfred Owen
  2. 2Who wrote - "'Jack fell as he’d have wished,' the Mother said, / And folded up the letter that she’d read. / 'The Colonel writes so nicely.' Something broke / In the tired voice that quavered to a choke. / She half looked up. 'We mothers are so proud / Of our dead soldiers.' Then her face was bowed."
    1. ASiegfried Sassoon
    2. BJohn Oxenham
    3. CRupert Brooke
    4. DIvor Gurney
  3. 3Who wrote "When you see millions of the mouthless dead / Across your dreams in pale battalions go, / Say not soft things as other men have said, / That you'll remember. For you need not so"
    1. AOwen Seaman
    2. BCharles Hamilton Sorley
    3. CRobert Nichols
    4. DJohn Oxenham
  4. 4One of the best known WWI poems, by Wilfred Owen, ends:
    My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
    To children, ardent for some desperate glory,
    The old lie: _______________________________
    How does the Latin phrase that follows translate into English?
    1. APatriotism is the noblest form of love
    2. BThe art of war is the most magnificent
    3. CFame and fortune await the man who is brave in battle
    4. DIt is sweet and fitting to die for one's country
  5. 5What was the nationality of John McCrae, author of the famous lines:
    In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
    Between the crosses row on row
    1. AAmerican
    2. BEnglish
    3. CCanadian
    4. DScottish
  6. 6Wilfred Owen was killed in action in 1918 when he was 25 years old. How long was it from the end of the war when Owen was killed?
    1. AOne hour
    2. BOne day
    3. COne week
    4. DOne month
  7. 7Siegfried Sassoon is, perhaps, the best-known First World War poet. He wrote, in "Counter-Attack", "He crouched and flinched, dizzy with galloping fear,/Sick for escape - loathing the strangled horror/And butchered, frantic gestures of the dead." How did Siegfried Sassoon die?
    1. AFrom machine gun fire at the Battle of the Somme
    2. BOf tuberculosis
    3. CFrom enemy fire during the Battle of the St. Quentin Canal
    4. DOf old age
  8. 8Charles Hamilton Sorley wrote the poem "When you see Millions ...": "When you see Millions of the mouthless dead/Across your dreams in pale battalions go,/Say not soft things as other men have said,/That you'll remember. For you need not so." How did Charles Hamilton Sorley die?
    1. AOf wounds at the Battle of the Somme
    2. BShot in the head by a sniper at the Battle of Loos
    3. C Of gangrene
    4. DOf a wound turned septic after the Battle of Cambrai
  9. 9Wilfrid Owen is one of the best-known First World War poets, and deservedly so. In his poem "Mental Cases", he writes "These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished./Memory fingers in their hair of murders,/Multitudinous murders they once witnessed./Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,/Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter." How did Wilfred Owen die?
    1. AIn a trench at Ypres, Belgium
    2. BOf pneumonia at his home in Shropshire, England
    3. CAs a sapper at the Somme, France
    4. DOn a bridge at Ors, France
  10. 10Rupert Brooke wrote these lines about WWI in his poem "The Soldier": "If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England." How did Rupert Brooke die?
    1. AFrom blood poisoning on a troop ship
    2. BOf wounds at the Battle of Basra
    3. COf enteric fever at Gallipoli
    4. DFrom chlorine gas at the Second Battle of Ypres

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