Poppies by Jane Weir

When was Jane Weir born?

• 1945

• 1963

• 2019

• 1962

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What is the poem about?

• How varied cheese toppings are on pizza

• About the mothers feelings when her son leaves for war and about the nature of grief.

• whether avocado grows on trees or is produced by chickens like eggs. then the grief of the chicken eating a poppy and laying another avocado.

• About how the mother is stricken with grief over the early retirement of her great grandpa and how the wool industry is going to manage without him.

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What is the key theme of the poem?

• Nature

• Memories

• Grief

• Chairs

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What does the poppy symbolize?

• The poppy signifies whether a person has died or still lived and where they were buried and where they were born and who they were born into.

• The remembrance poppy is a red flower that signifies when someone has died in 2011 or 2019 and whether there family mourns for them.

• The poppy is a symbol of remembrance and the war, it reminds the mother of the time when she pinned the poppy on her sons blazer.

• The poppy is known as a flower which is red in appearance and costly in many supermarkets. It is sold for around £300 to £2 and is an extremely valuable flower to pin on blazers.

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Where was the poem set?

• The poem is set in the present day but reaches back to the beginning of the poppy tradition.

• The poem is set in the past and in Italy.

• The poem was set in the 1980's and many people were suffering from the same thing.

• The poem was written during the first world war when British soldiers were dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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What animals hairs did the mother pick of her son as he was about to leave?

• Tiger

• Cow

• Cat

• Rabbit

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What did the mother release from a cage after the son had left to symbolize freedom?

• Song bird

• Parakeet

• Eagle

• Crow

What does the 'single dove' in the poem symbolize?

• Peace and Freedom

• Peace but also Mourning

• Mourning but also Memories

• Memories and Peace

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