Wilfred Owen: Poems Quizzes

Wilfred Owen: Poems Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne · Edited by Christine McKeever · Last reviewed June 26, 2014

1 Where does the soldier in "Strange Meeting" find himself?

In Heaven

In Purgatory

At home

In Hell
2 In "Strange Meeting", what does the soldier see that leads him to believe he is in hell?

The dead man's eyes

The dead man's legs

The dead man's smile

The dead man's arms
3 The soldier in "Strange Meeting" says there is no cause to

live

fight

mourn

smile
4 In "Strange Meeting" the dead man says the truth is the _____ of war.

pity

irrationality

sadness

reality
5 The dead man in "Strange Meeting" says he used to possess

good looks

money

courage and wisdom

religion
6 The dead man in "Strange Meeting" wants to

go back to his family

tell the truth about war

go to heaven

get back on the battlefield
7 Who does the dead man in "Strange Meeting" say he is?

The enemy killed by the soldier

The brother of the soldier

The cousin of the soldier

A famous war general
8 What does the dead man in "Strange Meeting" want to do at the very end?

Talk more

Kill the soldier

Sleep

Return to earth
9 In "Greater Love" the speaker says red lips are not as red as

the red blood on the uniforms

the stained stones of the dead

a beating heart

red roses
10 The eyes that the speaker in "Greater Love" finds more alluring are

dead

blinded

blue

closed in sleep
11 What is more exquisite than "your slender attitude" in "Greater Love"?

Limbs rolling around

Charging in battle

Firing a gun

Dying
12 In "Greater Love" what is more dear than the soft women's voices?

Voices of dead soldiers

Bugles blowing

The sound of shells

The wind
13 In "Greater Love" what is hotter and larger than a heart?

A heart shot with bullets

A heart that is not beating

Artillery shells

A soldier's amputated limbs
14 What do the pale hands in "Greater Love" carry throughout "flame and hail"?

A photograph

A Bible

A cross

A gun
15 At the very end of "Greater Love", what does the speaker say you cannot do?

Laugh at them

Weep for them

Touch them

Talk to them
16 In "Dulce et Decorum est" what are the bent-over soldiers compared to?

Servants

Pack animals

Hunchbacks

Beggars
17 The men marching in "Dulce et Decorum est" are all of the following except

Talkative

Blind

Asleep

Lame
18 What are the men in "Dulce et Decorum est" deaf to?

Conversation

Praise

God

Shells
19 What interrupts the march in "Dulce et Decorum est"?

Poison gas

A fight

Shells

Gunfire
20 What happens to the man in "Dulce et Decorum est" who does not get his helmet on?

He falls

He dies immediately

Nothing

He attacks another man
21 Where is the coughing, gurgling soldier put in "Dulce et Decorum est"?

A grave

On the side of the road

A wagon

A house
22 The spectacle of the dying soldier in "Dulce et Decorum est" is "obscene as _____"

disease

cancer

the devil

hell
23 "Dulce et Decorum est" is referred to as

a debate

the truth

a glorious motto

a lie
24 In "Dulce et Decorum est" the speaker can best be described as

hopeful

youthful

bitter

confused
25 What war does Owen write about?

WWI

The Vietnam War

The Civil War

WWII

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