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Question 1

The Prelude

Answer 1

• The narrator finds a boat tied to a tree
• The narrator seems happy and confident at first but then a mountain appears and the narrator is afraid of its size and power

Question 2

Charge of the Light Brigade

Answer 2

• Disastrous battle between British cavalry and Russian forces during the Crimean war
• The Russians had guns and were ordered to kill the enemy. Most of them died

Question 3

Exposure

Answer 3

• Soldiers in the trenches of WW1 who are awake at night because they are afraid of an enemy attack
• Nature is their main enemy. It is freezing, windy and snowing
• The men imagine returning home but believe that sacrificing themselves is the only way to keep their loved ones safe
• They think about their deaths in the icy, black trenches

Question 4

Storm on the Island

Answer 4

• A community that thinks it is well prepared for a storm
• Their confidence starts to disappear as the storm develops and becomes more powerful

Question 5

Remains

Answer 5

• A group of soldiers shoot a man who was involved in a bank raid
• The soldier telling the story isn’t sure whether the man was armed or not
• He can’t get the mans death out of his head

Question 6

Poppies

Answer 6

• A mother describing her son leaving home to join the army
• The mother is emotional and feels lonely and scared for his safety
• She helps smarten his uniform ready to leave
• After he leaves, she goes to a place that reminds her of him desperately trying to find a trace of him

Question 7

War Photographer

Answer 7

• A photographer who is in his darkroom developing his photos
• A photo begins to develop and the photographer remembers the death of a man and the cries of his wife

Question 8

The Emigree

Answer 8

• The speaker talks about a city she left as a child. She has a positive view of it
• The city seems to be under attack but in the third stanza, ‘they’ accuse and threaten the speaker but she still views the city in a positive way

Question 9

Kamikaze

Answer 9

• A kamikaze pilot who sets off on a mission to fly his plane into an enemy ship which was seen as a great honour to serve your country this way
• The pilot turned around and didn’t complete his mission, his daughter imagines this is because he saw the beauty of nature
• Hi family acted as if he did really die when he got home as they ignored him