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Dulce et Decroum Est

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World war 1, owen, wilfred, dulce et decorum est, dulce, gas, warfare, poetry, war poems, death, gas attack,

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1
Who are the "children ardent for some desperate glory"?
Kids wanting to play games
Kids looking for work
Young men who want to avoid the war
Young men desperate to fight for their country
2
What does "Drunk with fatigue" mean?
Sleeping on their feet
Really loaded with alcohol
Exhausted to the point of staggering
Sleeping on the battlefield
3
Why did Owen use the line, "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning"?
He can't swin
Because he is drowning
He is gasping for breath and is choking on his own blood
The chlorine gas is making him feel sea sick
4
Who wrote this famous poem?
Siegfried Sassoon
Alexander Pope
Jessie Pope
Wilfred Owen
5
What does the simile, "like a devil's sick of sin" mean?
The devil likes sin
The devil caused this man to die
The devil enjoys war
Even the devil couldn't stand the sight
6
Why do you think Owen uses such gruesome imagery in this poem?
To remind people how futile it is
To show the horrors of war
All of the above
To highlight the realities he personally witnessed
7
Who is the "You" being addressed in the poem?
The general public and Jessie Pope
The Germans
The public
The French
8
What does "Dulce et Decorum Est" actually mean?
It is sweet and fitting to die for your country
It's Latin. It could mean anything
It is good to fight an enemy
It is wrong to make war
9
"Floundring like a man in fire, or lime..." Why use this image?
Lime is green. Fire is hot.
Men burned and died in fires
It continues the drowning imagery linking the burning death
A flounder is a fish
10
Who didn't put on a gas mask quickly enough?
The horse
One of Owen's soldier colleagues
The poet himself
The enemy