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Power & Conflict Quotation Blanks

Total questions: 78

Worksheet time: 39mins

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Class
Date
1.

The ____ shape towered up between me and the stars. (From 'The Prelude')

a)

Huge

b)

Grim

c)

Massive

d)

Ugly

2.

What does 'grim' mean?

a)

Confused, unhappy

b)

Green, happy

c)

Creative, excited

d)

Serious, joyless

3.

A trouble to my ______ ( From 'The Prelude')

a)

Thoughts

b)

Speech

c)

Dreams

d)

Mind

4.

The sublime is...

a)

The terrifying power of nature (but you are safe)

b)

The weak power of nature (but you are in danger)

c)

Another word for the tragic hero

d)

A type of metaphor

5.

'The Prelude' is about...

a)

The sublime (the power of nature)

b)

Identity and eurocentric history

c)

PTSD

d)

The Industrial Revolution

6.

Who wrote 'The Prelude?'

a)

Wilfred Owen

b)

Robert Browning

c)

William Blake

d)

William Wordsworth

7.

"A ________ to my dreams" (From 'The Prelude')

a)

strangeness

b)

trouble

c)

happiness

d)

confusion

8.

The mind-forged _______ I hear (From 'London')

a)

manacles

b)

handcuffs

c)

chains

d)

ideas

9.

The mind-f____ manacles I hear (From 'London')

a)

flavoured

b)

forgotten

c)

formed

d)

forged

10.

What poem is this from? "The mind-forged manacles I hear."

a)

War Photographer

b)

Tissue

c)

London

d)

Kamikaze

11.

The grim shape ______ up between me and the stars. (From 'The Prelude')

a)

Towered

b)

Rose

c)

Stretched

d)

Flew

12.

The grim shape towered up between me and the ____. (From 'The Prelude')

a)

Castle of Macbeth

b)

Stars

c)

Hills

d)

Moon

13.

Marks of ______, marks of woe. (From 'London')

a)

Happiness

b)

Weakness

c)

Hunger

d)

Hope

14.

Which of these pictures shows manacles?

a)

b)

c)

15.

______ of weakness, _____ of woe. (From 'London')

a)

Songs

b)

Marks

c)

Traces

d)

TikToks

16.

Marks of weakness, marks of ___. (From 'London')

a)

weo

b)

woe

c)

weeo

d)

woo

17.

Who wrote 'London?'

a)

William Wordsworth

b)

Wilfred Owen

c)

William Blake

d)

Percy Shelley

18.

Blake wrote London during...

a)

The Industrial Revolution

b)

The Post-War period

c)

The Jacobean period

d)

The Digital Revolution

19.

Look on my ____, ye Mighty, and despair! (From 'Ozymandias')

a)

Face

b)

Phone

c)

Works

d)

Eyes

20.

Look on my works, ye ______, and despair! (From 'Ozymandias')

a)

Mighty

b)

Misty

c)

Mouldy

d)

Mad

21.

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and _____! (From 'Ozymandias')

a)

despair

b)

dream

c)

die

d)

drop

22.

Who wrote 'Ozymandias?'

a)

William Wordsworth

b)

Mary Shelley

c)

William Blake

d)

Percy Shelley

23.

Ozymandias is about how...

a)

Time destroys everything.

b)

Tim destroys everything.

c)

Time creates everything.

d)

Tim creates everything.

24.

“Nothing beside remains" is from...

a)

Storm on the Island

b)

The Prelude

c)

War Photographer

d)

Ozymandias

25.

“______ beside remains.” (From 'Ozymandias')

a)

Something

b)

Nothing

c)

No person

d)

Everything

26.

“Nothing beside ______.” (From 'Ozymandias')

a)

stays around

b)

remains

c)

is forgotten

d)

is above you

27.

I gave commands; then all _____ stopped (From 'My Last Duchess')

a)

Sneers

b)

Smiles

c)

Swimming

d)

Stupidity

28.

I gave _______; then all smiles stopped (From 'My Last Duchess')

a)

commands

b)

speeches

c)

orders

d)

a present

29.

I gave commands; then all smiles ______ (From 'My Last Duchess')

a)

ended

b)

began

c)

started

d)

stopped

30.

That's my last Duchess ______ on the wall, looking as if she were alive (From 'My Last Duchess')

a)

written

b)

painted

c)

hidden

d)

sitting

31.

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were ____ (From 'My Last Duchess')

a)

dead

b)

alive

c)

sleeping

d)

a cat

32.

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were ____ (From 'My Last Duchess')

a)

dead

b)

alive

c)

sleeping

d)

a cat

33.

What poem is this from? "I gave commands; then all smiles ended."

a)

My Last Duchess

b)

War Photographer

c)

Charge of the Light Brigade

d)

Remains

34.

My Last Duchess is about...

a)

A tyrant who hates kings and controls his children.

b)

A lover who hates power and controls her husband.

c)

A tyrant who loves power and controls his wife.

d)

A soldier who loves power and controls his friends.

35.

"All in the valley of ____ rode the six hundred." (From 'Charge of the Light Brigade')

a)

Death

b)

Doom

c)

Darkness

d)

Despair

36.

"All in the valley of Death rode the six hundred." What poem is this from?

a)

Remains

b)

Charge of the Light Brigade

c)

Kamikaze

d)

War Photographer

37.

"All in the valley of Death rode the ________" (From 'Charge of the Light Brigade')

a)

Brave warriors

b)

ten thousand

c)

fifteen

d)

six hundred

38.

"Into the ____ of Death, into the mouth of hell" (From 'Charge of the Light Brigade')

a)

mouth

b)

teeth

c)

nose

d)

jaws

39.

"Into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of ___" (From 'Charge of the Light Brigade')

a)

fire

b)

evil

c)

hell

d)

Santa

40.

'Charge of the Light Brigade' presents death in war as sad but also...

a)

glorious

b)

evil

c)

pointless

d)

creative

41.

Which poem is this from? "Merciless iced east winds that knive us."

a)

War Photographer

b)

The Prelude

c)

Ozymandias

d)

Exposure

42.

"Merciless iced east winds that ____ us." (From 'Exposure')

a)

Stab

b)

Shoot

c)

Knive

d)

Prod

43.

"_______ iced east winds that knive us." (From 'Exposure')

a)

Merciless

b)

Cruel

c)

Pitiless

d)

Unkind

44.

"But ______ happens" (From 'Exposure')

a)

Things

b)

Something

c)

Nothing

d)

Everything

45.

"But nothing ______" (From 'Exposure')

a)

falls down

b)

happens

c)

begins

d)

remains

46.

The line "But nothing happens" from 'Exposure' is...

a)

not believable

b)

unclear

c)

a simile

d)

repeated several times

47.

'Exposure' is a poem about...

a)

the power of nature

b)

the power of humans

c)

the power of war

d)

the power of Macbeth

48.

"Bullets smacking the belly out of the air." What poem is this from?

a)

Remains

b)

Exposure

c)

Bayonet Charge

d)

Macbeth

49.

"Bullets smacking the b___ out of the air." (From 'Bayonet Charge')

a)

brains

b)

belly

c)

bandages

d)

breeze

50.

"Bullets smacking the belly out of the air." (From 'Bayonet Charge') This is an example of...

a)

Structure

b)

The pathetic fallacy

c)

Personification

d)

Simile

51.

"Bullets _______ the belly out of the air." (From 'Bayonet Charge')

a)

breaking

b)

whipping

c)

beating

d)

smacking

52.

"Its mouth wide open _____, its eyes standing out."(From 'Bayonet Charge')

a)

silent

b)

cut

c)

broken

d)

gasping

53.

"Its mouth wide open silent, its ___ standing out."(From 'Bayonet Charge')

a)

nose

b)

eyes

c)

ears

d)

elbows

54.

"Tosses his guts back into his body." This is from which poem?

a)

Exposure

b)

Remains

c)

The Émigrée

d)

The Hulk

55.

"Tosses his ____ back into his body." (From 'Remains')

a)

blood

b)

insides

c)

brains

d)

guts

56.

"____ his guts back into his body." (From 'Remains')

a)

throws

b)

hurls

c)

tosses

d)

pushes

57.

"possibly armed, _______ not" (From 'Remains')

a)

probably

b)

maybe

c)

possibly

d)

perhaps

58.

"possibly _____, probably not" (From 'Remains')

a)

armed

b)

innocent

c)

friendly

d)

dangerous

59.

"Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows." Which poem is this from?

a)

A Christmas Carol

b)

The Émigrée

c)

War Photographer

d)

Exposure

60.

"Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows." What is a spool?

a)

A piece of paper

b)

A roll of camera film

c)

A type of gun

d)

A drug for soldiers

61.

"Spools of ______ set out in ordered rows." (From 'War Photographer')

a)

rage

b)

hate

c)

suffering

d)

pain

62.

"The reader’s _____ prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers." (From 'War Photographer')

a)

eyeballs

b)

eyelids

c)

eyebrows

d)

eyeliner

63.

"The reader’s eyeballs ____ with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers." (From 'War Photographer')

a)

pounce

b)

prick

c)

pick

d)

push out

64.

What poem is this quotation from? "Spasms of red paper."

a)

Macbeth

b)

War Photographer

c)

The Émigrée

d)

Poppies

65.

"____ of red paper." (From 'Poppies')

a)

wraps

b)

spasms

c)

piles

d)

bunches

66.

"Spasms of red _____." (From 'Poppies')

a)

flowers

b)

plastic

c)

paper

d)

cardboard

67.

"I listened, hoping to hear your _______ voice catching on the wind" (From 'Poppies')

a)

foolish

b)

stupid

c)

childlike

d)

playground

68.

"I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice ___________" (From 'Poppies')

a)

catching on the wind

b)

flying in the air

c)

dancing in the breeze

d)

echoing in the void

69.

What poem is this from? "He must have wondered which had been the better way to die."

a)

Ozymandias

b)

The Émigrée

c)

Remains

d)

Kamikaze

70.

What poem is this from? "He must have wondered which had been the better way to die."

a)

Ozymandias

b)

The Émigrée

c)

Remains

d)

Kamikaze

71.

"He must have _____ which had been the better way to die." (From 'Kamikaze')

a)

Believed

b)

Forgot

c)

Remembered

d)

Wondered

72.

"He must have wondered which had been the ______ to die." (From 'Kamikaze')

a)

better way

b)

fastest way

c)

quickest way

d)

strangest way

73.

Which poem is this from? "They accuse me of absence, they circle me."

a)

Poppies

b)

The Émigrée

c)

Tissue

d)

The Prelude

74.

"They accuse me of _____, they circle me." (From 'The Émigrée')

a)

Kindness

b)

Absence

c)

Silliness

d)

Darkness

75.

"They accuse me of absence, they _____ me." (From 'The Émigrée')

a)

circle

b)

cover

c)

talk to

d)

created

76.

"There once was a ________." (From 'The Émigrée')

a)

country

b)

story

c)

creature

d)

TikTok

77.

"There _____ a country." (From 'The Émigrée')

a)

once was

b)

always is

c)

will be

d)

should have been

78.

“Deny me this, and an eternal curse fall on you” Macbeth says this to..

a)

Lady Macbeth

b)

The audience

c)

The Witches

d)

Mr Beast