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Poetry of World War One

Question 1 of 10

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Who 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"?

Select one of the following:

  • Isaac Rosenberg

  • Thomas Hardy

  • John McCrae

  • Wilfred Owen

Explanation

Question 2 of 10

1

Who 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."

Select one of the following:

  • Siegfried Sassoon

  • John Oxenham

  • Rupert Brooke

  • Ivor Gurney

Explanation

Question 3 of 10

1

Who 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"

Select one of the following:

  • Owen Seaman

  • Charles Hamilton Sorley

  • Robert Nichols

  • John Oxenham

Explanation

Question 4 of 10

1

One 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?

Select one of the following:

  • Patriotism is the noblest form of love

  • The art of war is the most magnificent

  • Fame and fortune await the man who is brave in battle

  • It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country

Explanation

Question 5 of 10

1

What was the nationality of John McCrae, author of the famous lines:
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row

Select one of the following:

  • American

  • English

  • Canadian

  • Scottish

Explanation

Question 6 of 10

1

Wilfred 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?

Select one of the following:

  • One hour

  • One day

  • One week

  • One month

Explanation

Question 7 of 10

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Siegfried 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?

Select one of the following:

  • From machine gun fire at the Battle of the Somme

  • Of tuberculosis

  • From enemy fire during the Battle of the St. Quentin Canal

  • Of old age

Explanation

Question 8 of 10

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Charles 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?

Select one of the following:

  • Of wounds at the Battle of the Somme

  • Shot in the head by a sniper at the Battle of Loos

  • Of gangrene

  • Of a wound turned septic after the Battle of Cambrai

Explanation

Question 9 of 10

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Wilfrid 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?

Select one of the following:

  • In a trench at Ypres, Belgium

  • Of pneumonia at his home in Shropshire, England

  • As a sapper at the Somme, France

  • On a bridge at Ors, France

Explanation

Question 10 of 10

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Rupert 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?

Select one of the following:

  • From blood poisoning on a troop ship

  • Of wounds at the Battle of Basra

  • Of enteric fever at Gallipoli

  • From chlorine gas at the Second Battle of Ypres

Explanation