Directions: Click on the link above, and click on further links as necessary, to answer the following questions. Use loose-leaf paper. List each member of your group, and include your unique numbers. You may print one copy of this page for reference.
1. How did Rupert Brooke die?
Answers to questions 2 and 3 may be found by looking under Brooke's "the War Sonnets."
2. What is the "worst friend and enemy" in Brooke's " "Peace"?
3. Which country is honored in Brooke's "Soldier"?
4. In John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields," who is the speaker?
5. What was McCrae's job in the war?
6. Of what did McCrae die?
7. What killed Wilfred Owen?
8. How old was Owen when he died?
9. What is the setting (place) in "Strange Meeting"?
10. Whom does the (first) speaker meet in this location? ("Strange Meeting")
11. Give at least one meaning of "flesh-marked" in Owen's "At a Calvary Near the Ancre"?
12. What is a calvary, and what does the word mean?
13. To which Biblical passage is Owen alluding, in the last two lines of "Calvary"? (book, chapter and verse numbers)
14. Give three examples of alliteration in Owen's "Greater Love."
15. The war poster "The Greatest Mother in the World" was very successful for the Red Cross. Find this by clicking on "Christian Imagery" under Owens. Whom is the Virgin Mary carrying (two answers)?
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16. What do the lyrics of the song "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperay" describe? (find by clicking on Edward Thomas)
17. What is another popular World War One song mentioned on this website?
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