War Poetry

Why do we mark Remembrance day on a certain date?

• It was the date World War 2 finished
• The Queen decided on the date 
• It was the date World War 1 finished
• It is close to Christmas

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CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

When was the first silence held? 

• 11th November 1919
• 11th November 1920
• 11th November 1945 
• 11th November 2017

Who wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields"?

• Christina Rossetti

• Wilfred Owen

• John McCrae

• Isaac Rosenberg

Complete the verse...
"We are the ................. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow"

• Fired
• Dead
• Beaten
• Killed

Complete the verse...
"Loved and were loved, and now we
lie, in ............................ fields"

• London
• Cardiff
• Glasgow
• Flanders

Complete the verse...
"We shall not sleep, though ..............
grow In Flanders fields"

• thistles
• shamrocks
• daffodils
• poppies

At which Scottish hospital did Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon meet?

• Craiglockhart

• Loch Ness

• Dumbarton

• Edinburgh

Which of the following is not a poem by Wilfred Owen

• Disabled

• Dulce et Decorum Est

• Anthem for the Doomed Youth

• Break of Day in the Trenches

In Wilfred Owen's poem, ‘Futility’, how are the sunbeams described?

• Futile

• Glorious

• Fatuous

• Warming

In what year did Wilfred Owen die?

• 1918

• 1917

• 1919

• 1925