WorksheetsHow well do you know 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen?
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Fill in the gap: "Their flowers the tenderness of ______ minds,"
a)
quiet
b)
anxious
c)
patient
d)
fearful
2.
Fill in the gap: "What candles may be held to ______ them all?"
a)
mourn
b)
welcome
c)
speed
d)
lament
3.
What does pallor mean?
a)
an unhealthy, pale appearance
b)
a flushed and excited appearance
c)
a person who caries coffins
d)
a person who prepares dead bodies to be buried
4.
What does shires mean? (in context)
a)
prayers
b)
villages
c)
large, heavy draft horses
d)
counties
5.
What technique is "rifles' rapid rattle"?
a)
alliteration
b)
rhyme
c)
metaphor
d)
oxymoron
6.
What technique is "choirs of wailing shells"?
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
personification
c)
satire
d)
hyperbole
7.
What could "their flowers the tenderness of patient minds" mean?
a)
The flowers were the cause of their death.
b)
The only positive tribute to the dead soldiers comes from the tender thoughts and concerns of those who have more patient, sensitive minds.
c)
Their gains from being patient are tender minds.
d)
The reward of death in battle is an afterlife in heaven.
8.
What could "the shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells" mean?
a)
The voices of the loved ones are despairing as the shells fall.
b)
The choirs of heaven are welcoming the soldiers as the bomb falls.
c)
The seaside choirs are demented in mourning.
d)
No mourning going on whatsoever on the battlefield, except for the wailing of bombs.
9.
Why was Wilfred Owen sent home in 1916 before returning two years later?
a)
He got shot in the arm.
b)
He suffered from shell shock.
c)
He injured his hand.
d)
He caught typhoid disease.
10.
Where did Wilfred Owen meet Siegfried Sassoon?
a)
Um... he didn't meet him.
b)
In an Edinburgh war hospital.
c)
In the trenches at the Battle of the Somme
d)
In heaven.
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