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World War I Practice Test: The Inspired Word - Poetry From The Battles
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World War I Practice Test: The Inspired Word - Poetry From The Battles
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1. W. N. Hodgson served as a lieutenant with the Devonshire Regiment during the war. He wrote poetry, which was published in 1916, under what pen-name?
2. The most often quoted lines from First World War poems is this:
If I should die, think only this of me; That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.
Which poet wrote these words?
3. Which famous writer lost his son in the war? It inspired him to write the line: If any question why we died
4. Siegfried Sassoon was a poet who served in the British Army during the war. The death of his friend, David Thomas, drove him to write a letter to his commanding officer in which he refused to return to duty. What happened to Sassoon because of this letter?
5. Isaac Rosenberg was a professional writer and artist. During the war he was assigned to a 'bantam battalion'. What was different about the soldiers in a bantam battalion?
6. Sassoon's most famous war poem tells of how a soldier should advance slowly. What is this poem called?
7. Owen was killed in action in 1918 when he was 25 years old. He was trying to cross the Sambre canal but was shot during the attempt. How long was it from the end of the war when Owen was killed?
8. Wilfred Owen was a friend of Sassoon's and probably the most famous of First World War poets. One of his poems, Dulce et Decorum est, translates from which Latin phrase?
9. Edward Thomas was a Welshman and an already-published writer before the war. He was killed only a few months after he arrived in France whilst doing what?
10. The war poem In Flanders Fields" was written by the Canadian soldier John McCrae. What did McCrae do for a living before the war?"

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