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What? • poet during the WW1 • wrote the famous poem "In Flanders Fields" Historical Significance • poem gave people back then (who weren't involved with the war) and even now, what it really felt like to be fighting • people realized that fighting in a war wasn't all that glamorous as it was made out to be • poem is now read every Remembrance Day in memory of the soldiers lost in battle

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PEOPLE > TURN OF THE CENTURY > John McCrae > REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Who wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields?"
   
   1. Sam Hughes
   2. John Bishop
   3. Federick Banting
   4. John McCrae



1. McCrae was also a ____ who served in both the Boer War and WW1
   
   1. nurse
   2. doctor
   3. soldier
   4. painter




2. He was a ______ for the 1st Brigade of Canadian Forces of Artillary
   
   1. surgeon
   2. medic
   3. sergeant
   4. mechanic



3. John McCrae healed many wounded soldiers in
   
   1. WW2
   2. Boer War
   3. WW1
   4. both b) and c)





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