This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > War > War Literature – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books War Literature Quiz 4 (12 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is "catharsis" in war literature? A) Recognizing one's flaws. B) Regurgitating what one has seen/done. C) The tragic flaw. D) The climax of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Regurgitating what one has seen/done. 2. Who said the following? "English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War." A) Wilfred Owen. B) Robert Browning. C) Rupert Brooke. D) T S Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wilfred Owen. 3. In Rupert Brooke's Peace, the poet says that domestic peace has grown ..... ? A) Ugly. B) Lofty. C) Unmanageable. D) Stale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stale. 4. What is the term for words which end with the same sounds, usually at the end of lines of poetry? A) Internal rhyme. B) Pure rhyme. C) Near rhyme. D) Eye rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pure rhyme. 5. The story of a child that experiences the horror of the battlefield first hand. A) "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". B) 12 Years a Slave. C) "The Wound Dresser". D) "Chickamauga". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Chickamauga". 6. "We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community." A) Antithesis. B) Assonance. C) Anaphora. D) Aphorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 7. "A street of farmers' homesteads-a streetruled by a mayor and corporation, yet echoingwith the thump of the flail, the flutter of thewinnowing-fan, and the purr of the milk into thepails-a street which had nothing urban in itwhatever-this was the Durnover end ofCasterbridge." Identify the onomatopeia in the passage. A) Ruled by a mayor and corporation. B) A street of farmers' homesteads. C) A street which had nothing urban in it whatever. D) The flutter of the winnowing-fan, and the purr of the milk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The flutter of the winnowing-fan, and the purr of the milk. 8. "Evening of a hot day started the little wind tomoving among the leaves. The shade climbedup the hills toward the top. On the sand banksthe rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones." What is being personified in this passage? A) The rabbits. B) The shade. C) The stones. D) The sandbanks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The shade. 9. Abraham Lincoln became the ..... president. A) 1st. B) An offer. C) 20th. D) 16th. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 16th. 10. Endless A) Oscillation. B) Ludicrous. C) Poignant. D) Interminable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interminable. 11. Spotted; stained A) Incomprehensible. B) Quaint. C) Smitten. D) Maculated. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maculated. 12. What was the peak number of U.S. troops in Vietnam? A) 1 million. B) 10, 000. C) 543, 000. D) 850, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 543, 000. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesMovements QuizzesWar Literature Quiz 1War Literature Quiz 2War Literature Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books