1. 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"?

   1. Isaac Rosenberg

   2. Wilfred Owen

   3. John McCrae

   4. Thomas Hardy

2. "These laid the world away; poured out the red / Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be / Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, / That men call age ... "

   1. Robert Graves

   2. Rudyard Kipling

   3. Alan Seeger

   4. Rupert Brooke

3. "'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."

   1. Siegfried Sassoon

   2. Rupert Brooke

   3. John Oxenham

   4. Ivor Gurney

4. "Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots / But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; / Drunk with fatigue deaf even to the hoots/ Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind."

   1. Ezra Pound

   2. Wilfred Owen

   3. Edward Thomas

   4. Rupert Brooke

5. "Now that you too must shortly go the way / Which in these bloodshot years uncounted men / Have gone in vanishing armies day by day, / And in their numbers will not come again: / I must not strain the moments of our meeting / Striving for each look, each accent, not to miss, / Or question of our parting and our greeting, / Is this the last of all? is this - or this?"

   1. Muriel Stuart

   2. Katharine Tynan

   3. Eleanor Farjeon

   4. Jessie Pope

6. "If any question why we died, / Tell them, because our fathers lied."

   1. Henry Newbolt

   2. Siegfried Sassoon

   3. John McCrae

   4. Rudyard Kipling

7. "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"

   1. Charles Sorley

   2. Robert Nichols

   3. John Oxenham

   4. Owen Seaman

8. "If you should die, think only this of me / In that still quietness where is space for thought, / Where parting, loss and bloodshed shall not be, / And men may rest themselves and dream of nought: / That in some place a mystic mile away / One whom you loved has drained the bitter cup / Till there is nought to drink; has faced the day / Once more, and now, has raised the standard up"

   1. Eleanor Farjeon

   2. Vera Brittain

   3. Mary Herschel-Clarke

   4. Jessie Pope

9. "'At least it wasn't your fault' I hear them console / When they come back, the few that will come back. / I feel those handshakes now. 'Well, on the whole / You didn't miss much. I wish I had your knack / Of stopping out. You still can call your soul / Your own, at any rate. What a priceless slack / You've had, old chap. It must have been top-hole. / How's poetry? I bet you've written a stack.'"

   1. Geoffrey Faber

   2. Ezra Pound

   3. TS Eliot

   4. Siegfried Sassoon

10. "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them"

    1. Rupert Brooke

    2. Wilfred Owen

    3. Laurence Binyon

    4. Thomas Hardy

Solutions

1:C, 2:C, 3:A, 4:B, 5:C, 6:D, 7:A, 8:C, 9:A, 10:C

Scores

1. 2 and above.

   Terrible. Court martial for you unless you retake the quiz now and get a better mark

2. 5 and above.

   If 'the poetry is in the pity', as Owen said, you're quite hard-hearted

3. 8 and above.

   Very good. Mentioned in despatches

4. 10 and above.

   Outstanding. A medal of honour