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Y10 Power and Conflict

Total questions: 47

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In which war did the Light Brigade fight?

a)

World War 1

b)

Vietnam War

c)

Crimean War

d)

Caribbean War

2.

Roughly how many cavalrymen formed the Light Brigade?

a)

300

b)

400

c)

500

d)

600

3.

In which was is Exposure set?

a)

World War 1

b)

Crimean War

c)

Vietnam War

d)

Caribbean War

4.

Who wrote War Photographer?

a)

Wilfred Owen

b)

Carol Ann Duffy

c)

William Wordsworth

d)

Jane Weir

5.

Who wrote Remains?

a)

Carol Ann Duffy

b)

Wilfred Owen

c)

Simon Armitage

d)

Alfred, Lord Tenyson

6.

Who wrote Charge of the Light Brigade?

a)

Simon Artimage

b)

Jane Weir

c)

Alfred, Lord Tenyson

d)

Wilfred Powen

7.

Who wrote Bayonet Charge?

a)

Ted Hughes

b)

Simon Armitage

c)

Wilfred Owen

d)

Alfred, Lord Tenyson

8.

Who wrote Exposure?

a)

Ted Hughes

b)

Alfred Lord Tenyson

c)

SImon Armitage

d)

Wilfred Owen

9.

Who wrote Kamikaze?

a)

Carol Ann Duffy

b)

Jane Weir

c)

Ted Hughes

d)

Beatrice Garland

10.

Who wrote Poppies?

a)

Carol Ann Duffy

b)

Jane Weir

c)

Simon Armitage

d)

Beatrice Garland

11.

Who wrote Storm on the Island?

a)

Seamus Heaney

b)

Ted Hughes

c)

Simon Armitage

d)

William Wordsworth

12.

‘Someone had blunder’d’ is from...

a)

War Photgrapher

b)

Poppies

c)

Exposure

d)

Charge of the Light Brigade

13.

The first line of ‘Exposure’ is....

a)

The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow

b)

But nothing happens

c)

We turn back to our dying

d)

Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us...

14.

How could you define the language technique in this quotation? ‘The grim shape towered up between me and the stars’

a)

Pathetic fallacy

b)

Antithesis

c)

Irony

d)

Personification

15.

How might the reader explain the language technique used in the quotation ‘The flung spray hits the windows’?

a)

Personification

b)

Sibilance

c)

Consonance

d)

Imagery

16.

“theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs but to do and die”

a)

London

b)

Poppies

c)

Exposure

d)

Charge of the Light Brigade

17.

“we turn back to our dying”

a)

Ozymandias

b)

Exposure

c)

Remains

d)

Poppies

18.

“bullets smacking the belly out of the air-“

a)

Exposure

b)

Poppies

c)

Bayonet Charge

d)

Charge of the Light Brigade

19.

“released a song bird from its cage”

a)

War Photographer

b)

Poppies

c)

Charge of the Light Brigade

d)

Exposure

20.

Where was John Agard born?

a)

London

b)

Guyana

c)

Jamaica

d)

United States

21.

What dialect does Agard use in the poem?

a)

Pidgin English

b)

Standard English

c)

Estuary English

d)

Guyanese Creole

22.

Creole means a language or dialect derived from one or more other (especially European) languages. What other word can mean this?

a)

Pidgin

b)

Pigeon

c)

Patois

d)

Patwa

23.
'From Jamaica
she travel far'
a)
Storm on the Island
b)
Ozymandias
c)
Checking Out Me History
d)
The Emigree
24.

"Sun-stunned, sand-smothered land" is from which poem?

a)

Bayonet Charge

b)

Remains

c)

The Prelude

d)

Poppies

25.

What is the narrator of a poem called?

a)

Author

b)

Speaker

c)

Narrator

d)

Main character

26.

Groups of lines are called ______________.

a)

Paragraphs

b)

Stanzas

27.

What war did Wilfred Owen fight in?

a)

WW2

b)

WW1

c)

Crimean War

d)

Cold War

28.

What war did Alfred Lord Tennyson fight in?

a)

WW2

b)

WW1

c)

Crimean War

d)

He didn't fight in a war

29.

What war did Ted Hughes fight in?

a)

He didn't fight in a war

b)

WW2

c)

WW1

d)

Cold War

30.

What war is the 'Charge of the Light Brigade' about?

a)

WW2

b)

WW1

c)

Crimean War

d)

Cold War

31.

Who wrote 'Exposure'?

a)

Simon Armitage

b)

Wilfred Owen

c)

Carol Ann Duffy

d)

Beatrice Garland

32.

Who wrote 'Bayonet Charge'?

a)

Ted Hughes

b)

Percy Shelley

c)

Carol Ann Duffy

d)

Beatrice Garland

33.

Who wrote 'Remains'?

a)

Ted Hughes

b)

Carol Ann Duffy

c)

Robert Browning

d)

Simon Armitage

34.

"Every round as it rips through his life"

a)

Remains

b)

War Photographer

35.

"Blood shadow"

a)

Remains

b)

War Photographer

36.

"Blood stained into foreign dust"

a)

War Photographer

b)

Remains

37.

"finally alone"

a)

Remains

b)

War Photographer

38.

Who wrote Remains?

a)

Carol Ann Duffy

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Simon Armitage

d)

Mr O'Neill

39.

When was Remains written?

a)

1914

b)

2004

c)

2014

d)

2007

40.

What is PTSD?

a)

Post Tragic Stress Deformity

b)

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

c)

Pot Tramatic Stres Disoda

d)

Potatoes Try Singing Duets

41.

What has power in Remains? (Two answers)

a)

Bombs

b)

Memory

c)

Soldiers

d)

The King

e)

The Power Rangers

42.

When does the soldier in Remains get flashbacks?

a)

When he drinks

b)

When he reads the poem by Simon Armitage

c)

When he blinks

d)

When he goes back to Afghanistan

43.

Who Wrote War Photographer?

a)

Carol McDuffy

b)

Carole Anne Duff

c)

Carol Ann Duffy

d)

Justin Bieber

44.

Where was the photo of the running children taken?

a)

Belfast

b)

Phnomh Penh

c)

Beirut

d)

Vietnam

45.

Which two quotations show the war photographer's conflict?

a)

"Rural England"

b)

"In his darkroom"

c)

"Running children in a nightmare heat"

d)

"Probably armed, possibly not"

46.

"half-formed ghost" - what device?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Enjambment

c)

Alliteration

d)

Onomatopoeia

47.

On what day are the war photos published?

a)

Monday

b)

Saturday

c)

Sunday

d)

Pancake Day