Year 12 English Quiz

Question 1

What kind of imagery is dominant in Thunder Raining Poison?

Accepted Answer

Nature and violence

Question 2

What is one similarity between Dulce et Decorum Est and Thunder Raining Poison?

Accepted Answer

Both explore the personal cost of political violence

Question 3

Why is the use of sound devices (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia) significant in Anthem for Doomed Youth?

Accepted Answer

They imitate the sounds of a funeral and the battlefield

Question 4

What effect is created by the use of pararhyme (same consonant, different vowel) in Wilfred Owen’s poetry?

Accepted Answer

A jarring, unsettling rhythm

Question 5

What social issue does Thunder Raining Poison explore?

Accepted Answer

Effects of colonisation and nuclear testing

Question 6

What is the primary tone of Dulce et Decorum Est?

Accepted Answer

Bitter and confronting

Question 7

What poetic form is Anthem for Doomed Youth written in?

Accepted Answer

Sonnet

Question 8

In Mad Girl’s Love Song, how does the use of repetition contribute to the speaker’s psychological state?

Accepted Answer

It reflects obsession, instability, and detachment from reality

Question 9

What literary technique is used in Mushrooms to give mushrooms human-like qualities?

Accepted Answer

Personification

Question 10

Ali Cobby Eckermann is a poet of which cultural background?

Accepted Answer

Aboriginal Australian

Question 11

What repeated line appears throughout Mad Girl’s Love Song?

Accepted Answer

“I think I made you up inside my head”

Question 12

Which poem contains references to mustard gas and trench warfare?

Accepted Answer

Dulce et Decorum Est

Question 13

Who wrote Anthem for Doomed Youth?

Accepted Answer

Wilfred Owen

Question 14

For what purpose does Owen invoke the Latin phrase 'Dulce et Decorum Est'?

Accepted Answer

To expose the lie of patriotic ideals

Question 15

In Mushrooms, how might the quiet growth of the fungi be interpreted as symbolic?

Accepted Answer

It symbolises inevitable rebellion and feminist strength

Question 16

What is the subject of Mad Girl’s Love Song?

Accepted Answer

A lost or imagined lover

Question 17

How does Thunder Raining Poison blend personal and political experiences?

Accepted Answer

Through the fusion of dreamlike imagery with historical violence

Question 18

Which of the following is a key theme in Mushrooms?

Accepted Answer

Gender and silent resistance

Question 19

Which poet suffered from mental health struggles that influenced their writing?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 20

In Anthem for Doomed Youth, what literary device is most prominent in “what passing-bells for these who die as cattle?”

Accepted Answer

Simile

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