Lesson 4.2.1.13

4.2.1.13 Strange Meeting by Susan Hill Quiz: AQA English Literature A, Unit 2

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The 20 questions

  1. In what year was Susan Hill's novel Strange Meeting first published?

    • 1985
    • 1945
    • 1971
    • 1999

  2. From which poem by Wilfred Owen does Hill's novel take its title?

    • Dulce et Decorum Est
    • Anthem for Doomed Youth
    • Strange Meeting
    • Exposure

  3. In what year did Wilfred Owen die?

    • 1920
    • 1939
    • 1916
    • 1918

  4. Which poem by Owen describes the chemical attack of a gas cloud?

    • Strange Meeting
    • Dulce et Decorum Est
    • Anthem for Doomed Youth
    • Futility

  5. Which Latin phrase from Horace's Odes gives the title of Owen's famous gas-attack poem?

    • Memento mori, the reminder that all men must die, often used in religious art
    • Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
    • Carpe diem, the poetic advice to seize the day and enjoy the present moment
    • Veni, vidi, vici, the boast of a famous general about a swift and total victory

  6. Wilfred Owen's poems were published posthumously with the help of which fellow poet?

    • Edward Thomas, the Welsh-born poet who was killed on the Western Front in 1917
    • Rupert Brooke, the idealistic poet whose war sonnets were published in 1915
    • Siegfried Sassoon
    • T. S. Eliot, the American-born poet who later wrote The Waste Land in London

  7. What is the central subject of Owen's poem Strange Meeting?

    • A celebration of victory at the Somme, held in a village behind the front lines
    • A letter home from a hospital ward in which the wounded soldier describes his injuries
    • A meeting in the underworld with an enemy the speaker killed
    • A romance between two officers in London that ends in marriage after the war

  8. Which broad theme does Susan Hill's novel share with Owen's poem Strange Meeting?

    • The glory of imperial conquest and the expansion of the empire across distant lands
    • The rise of the motor car and the new roads that carried traffic to the cities
    • Reconciliation and the deep bonds between men at war
    • Domestic comedy in a village where neighbours quarrel over gardens and fences

  9. Which war poet is associated with the phrase "the pity of War"?

    • John McCrae
    • Rupert Brooke
    • Julian Grenfell
    • Wilfred Owen

  10. What is the effect of Owen's use of pararhyme in his war poetry?

    • Strict metre that hides emotion and keeps the reader at a careful distance
    • Lighthearted rhythm for children, designed to be sung aloud in the nursery
    • Perfect rhyme that celebrates patriotism and the glory of the nation at war
    • Dissonance that reflects the unsettled and painful subject matter

  11. Which literary technique is shown when Owen uses "passing-bells" in Anthem for Doomed Youth?

    • A stage direction that tells the performers how to move across the stage
    • A sudden change of narrator that shifts the poem to a different speaker entirely
    • Metaphor drawn from church funeral customs
    • A list of military ranks, arranged in order of seniority within the regiment

  12. Why does the title Strange Meeting carry particular weight in a novel about the First World War?

    • It describes a train journey between two cities taken by officers on leave
    • It names a card game popular in the trenches among bored soldiers each night
    • It refers to the official meeting of generals who planned the campaign at HQ
    • It suggests unexpected connection between people divided by the war

  13. Which period of the war did Owen spend in hospital, where he met Sassoon?

    • Gallipoli base camp, the supply centre that served the landings on the peninsula
    • Craiglockhart War Hospital
    • Chatham Dockyard, the naval base in Kent where warships were built and repaired
    • Scapa Flow, the naval anchorage in the Orkney Islands used by the British fleet

  14. Which of these best describes Hill's approach to the war in Strange Meeting?

    • Focus on inner emotional lives and friendship
    • A comic satire of generals
    • Strict focus on battle tactics and maps
    • A documentary list of casualties

  15. Why is Owen's poem often read as a form of reconciliation?

    • The speaker celebrates the enemy's defeat and rejoices in the death of his foe
    • The speaker meets and understands the enemy he has killed
    • The speaker joins the victorious army and marches home with the triumphant troops
    • The speaker reports a peace treaty signed between the two armies at the front

  16. Which poetic form does Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth use?

    • A villanelle
    • A sonnet
    • A haiku
    • A limerick

  17. Which contextual factor shaped Owen's view of the war's legacy?

    • The mass death of a generation of young men
    • The rise of the cinema industry, which spread stories of heroism across Britain
    • The end of censorship in 1914, which gave soldiers freedom to publish their work
    • The peaceful growth of the empire, which brought prosperity to the colonies

  18. Evaluate: why might a later novelist return to Owen's title?

    • To list the names of generals who commanded the armies on the Western Front
    • To avoid writing about the First World War by choosing a different and safer topic
    • To mock the poet's reputation and show that his poems were overrated at the time
    • To bring the poet's themes of loss and bond into a new narrative

  19. Which Owen poem opens with the instruction 'Move him into the sun'?

    • Anthem for Doomed Youth
    • Futility
    • Strange Meeting
    • Exposure

  20. In which regiment did Wilfred Owen serve as an officer?

    • Gordon Highlanders
    • Coldstream Guards
    • Manchester Regiment
    • Royal Engineers

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