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A #WarPoetry Quiz for Year 9 end of unit test.
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1
Rapid Fire: What is rhythm?
Words close to each other that begin with the same sound
A direct comparison
The number of syllables in a line
2
What might Oxland have meant when he wrote, "we shall go not forth again"?
Soldiers wanted a quiet life at home
The soldiers were going to die
The soldiers would not go to war again when they got home
The soldiers' souls would go home after their death
3
Rapid Fire: In Blackadder, Who wrote the poem
The German Guns
?
Oxland
Hodgson
Private Baldrick
4
What did Hodgson say in a poem that made people think he knew he was going to be killed?
"Help me to survive, please God"
"I'm too young to die"
"Not like this"
"Help me to die, O Lord"
5
What are the main themes of
Charge
?
Patriotism and Admiration
Patriotism and Sadness
Horror and Sadness
Patriotism and Horror
6
Rapid Fire: Who were England fighting against?
Russia, Spain, China
Germany, Austria, Hungary
France, Russia, Italy
7
Bonus Question: What happened on Christmas Day 1914?
The Doctor saved a soldier's life
There was a truce between the two sides
Santa's sleigh was shot down by artillery fire
The Germans invaded the North Pole
8
Bonus Question: Who are the developers of
Fortnite
?
Epic Games
Blizzard
Riot Games
EA Games
9
What language technique is used? "die as cattle"
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
10
Rapid Fire: Why did Wilfred Owen join the war?
He wanted a hard Brexit
He thought people wouldn't take his poems seriously
His German mother told him to fight
11
Which of these is the correct quote?
All the soldiers die like cattle.
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
There are so many dead, it's like we're all cattle.
Who is ringing a bell to remember the dead cattle?
12
Rapid Fire: Who was in charge of Germany during World War One?
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Angela Merkel
Adolf Hitler
13
Why did Wilfred Owen write
Anthem for Doomed Youth
?
Because the conditions the soldiers fought in were dreadful
Because the Germans wrote a poem saying the war was great
Because so many young men were being killed in the war
Because he was asked to by his mother
14
Rapid Fire: According to Wilfred Owen, which type of weapon was 'angry'?
The cows
The artillery guns
The rifles
15
Rapid Fire: How far could the biggest gun shoot in World War One?
75 Miles
30 Miles
50 Miles
16
Which of these is NOT true about War Poetry?
It's an authentic account of war
It's written to celebrate, remember, or commend a war
It tells a personal story
The author has to have died in a war
17
Which of these quotes uses personification?
"each slow dusk"
"the monstrous anger of the guns"
"their hasty orisons"
"the holy glimmers of goodbyes"
18
Rapid Fire: What was censorship?
A government position in Ancient Rome
Blurring out of faces in a photo
The removal of harmful information
19
What is the language technique? "A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware"
Personification
Rhetorical Question
Tricolon
Structure
20
Who wrote
The Charge of the Light Brigade
?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nigel Owens
Lord Byron
Wilfred Owen
21
What does the phrase "Jaws of Death" mean?
The soldiers survived the fight
Most of the soldiers are going to die
The soldiers are going into a dangerous situation
It's a reference to a Steven Spielberg film
22
What is the language technique? "But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts"
Repetition
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
23
What does the word 'pall' mean in
Anthem
?
To be shocked
The pale colour of a face
The covering over a coffin
A good friend
24
Bonus Question: هل تعرف ماذا يعني هذا؟
ما هذا؟
قطعا
نعم فعلا
لا
25
Which poem was written by Rupert Brooke?
Charge of the Light Brigade
The Soldier
Outward Bound
Flanders Fields
26
Name a War Poet that went to Durham School
Tennyson
Oxland
Hodgson
Keats
27
What pseudonym (different name) did Hodgson use when writing poems?
A. A. Milne
Wilfred Owen
Edward Melbourne
George Eliot
28
What war does Brooke talk about in his poems?
The Boer War
World War Two
World War One
The Iraq War
29
Why does Henry Reed talk about the parts of a rifle?
He uses humour to show how bad life is
He's making a list to help him remember
He hasn't done any fighting so doesn't know what else to say
Knowing the parts of a rifle is the most important thing
30
The 1st stanza of
The Soldier
is 8 lines long, and the 2nd is 6 lines, what type of poem is it?
Limerick
Rhyming Couplet
Ballad
Sonnet
31
Bonus Question: Which famous U.S. singer refused to fight in a war?
Elvis Presley
Beyoncé
Michael Jackson
Bruno Mars
32
Bonus Question: Who said "never ... was so much owed by so many to so few"?
Wilfred Owen
Winston Churchill
Simon Armitage
Joseph Stalin
33
Rapid Fire: What is alliteration?
A direct comparison
The number of syllables in a line
Words close to each other that begin with the same sound
34
Rapid Fire: What was Trench Foot?
The nick-name of the World War 1 Army Football team
A new type of military boot designed to keep the feet dry
The skin of the foot rotting after being wet for too long
35
Bonus Question: Which Christmas song by Jona Lewie is about war?
Stop the Cavalry
Fairy Tale of New York
Winter Wonderland
White Christmas
36
Rapid Fire: How many soldiers died in World War 1?
5 million
18 million
12 million
37
Bonus Question: Which of these numbers is Mr. Corps' Kill/Death ratio in PUBG?
2.5
6.7
0.4
1.3
38
What role did Oxland have at school?
Head of School House
Head Boy
Music Scholar
Captain of the 1st XV
39
What poem did Henry Reed write?
The Names of War
Die Hard
The Pieces of a Gun
Naming of Parts
40
According to
Naming of Parts
what is the most important thing a soldier has?
Sleeping Bag
Rifle
Water Bottle
Memories of Home
41
How does the poem
Naming of Parts
describe the life of a soldier?
Dangerous
It doesn't
Boring
Exciting
42
What does Brooke think about England?
It created the soldiers that fight for her
It is to blame for the war
It is wherever a dead soldier is
He misses England
43
How many men were in the Light Brigade?
600
300
1,000
10,000
