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Pregunta 1
Pregunta
Who wrote "We are the Dead. Short days ago / We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, / Loved and were loved, and now we lie / In Flanders fields"?
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Isaac Rosenberg
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Thomas Hardy
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John McCrae
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Wilfred Owen
Pregunta 2
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Who wrote - "'Jack fell as he’d have wished,' the Mother said, / And folded up the letter that she’d read. / 'The Colonel writes so nicely.' Something broke / In the tired voice that quavered to a choke. / She half looked up. 'We mothers are so proud / Of our dead soldiers.' Then her face was bowed."
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Siegfried Sassoon
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John Oxenham
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Rupert Brooke
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Ivor Gurney
Pregunta 3
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Who wrote "When you see millions of the mouthless dead / Across your dreams in pale battalions go, / Say not soft things as other men have said, / That you'll remember. For you need not so"
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Owen Seaman
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Charles Hamilton Sorley
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Robert Nichols
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John Oxenham
Pregunta 4
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One of the best known WWI poems, by Wilfred Owen, ends:
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children, ardent for some desperate glory,
The old lie: _______________________________
How does the Latin phrase that follows translate into English?
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Patriotism is the noblest form of love
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The art of war is the most magnificent
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Fame and fortune await the man who is brave in battle
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It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country
Pregunta 5
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What was the nationality of John McCrae, author of the famous lines:
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row
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American
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English
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Canadian
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Scottish
Pregunta 6
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Wilfred Owen was killed in action in 1918 when he was 25 years old. How long was it from the end of the war when Owen was killed?
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One hour
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One day
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One week
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One month
Pregunta 7
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Siegfried Sassoon is, perhaps, the best-known First World War poet. He wrote, in "Counter-Attack", "He crouched and flinched, dizzy with galloping fear,/Sick for escape - loathing the strangled horror/And butchered, frantic gestures of the dead." How did Siegfried Sassoon die?
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From machine gun fire at the Battle of the Somme
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Of tuberculosis
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From enemy fire during the Battle of the St. Quentin Canal
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Of old age
Pregunta 8
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Charles Hamilton Sorley wrote the poem "When you see Millions ...": "When you see Millions of the mouthless dead/Across your dreams in pale battalions go,/Say not soft things as other men have said,/That you'll remember. For you need not so." How did Charles Hamilton Sorley die?
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Of wounds at the Battle of the Somme
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Shot in the head by a sniper at the Battle of Loos
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Of gangrene
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Of a wound turned septic after the Battle of Cambrai
Pregunta 9
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Wilfrid Owen is one of the best-known First World War poets, and deservedly so. In his poem "Mental Cases", he writes "These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished./Memory fingers in their hair of murders,/Multitudinous murders they once witnessed./Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,/Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter." How did Wilfred Owen die?
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In a trench at Ypres, Belgium
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Of pneumonia at his home in Shropshire, England
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As a sapper at the Somme, France
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On a bridge at Ors, France
Pregunta 10
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Rupert Brooke wrote these lines about WWI in his poem "The Soldier": "If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England." How did Rupert Brooke die?
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From blood poisoning on a troop ship
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Of wounds at the Battle of Basra
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Of enteric fever at Gallipoli
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From chlorine gas at the Second Battle of Ypres
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