Who composed the poem 'In Flanders Fields' in 1915?

Discover Canada records the author of "In Flanders Fields" with one direct sentence. The guide writes: Canadian medical officer Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae composed the poem "In Flanders Fields" in 1915; it is often recited on Remembrance Day. The man the test wants is therefore Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, named with that exact rank in the guide.

Two facts make the answer unambiguous. First, Discover Canada describes McCrae as "Canadian medical officer" — a doctor in uniform, not a senior commander. Second, the year is fixed: 1915. The poem itself emerged early in the First World War, and was already in print before the major Canadian victories at Vimy Ridge in 1917 or the Armistice on November 11, 1918.

The poem is now woven into Canadian national observance. Discover Canada says "In Flanders Fields" "is often recited on Remembrance Day," and describes the day itself: Canadians remember the sacrifices of our veterans and brave fallen in all wars up to the present day in which Canadians took part, each year on November 11: Remembrance Day. Canadians wear the red poppy and observe a moment of silence at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. The red poppy worn on the day comes from the imagery of McCrae's poem.

Numbers from the same passage put the poem's importance in scale. Discover Canada writes that Canadians honour "the sacrifices of over a million brave men and women who have served, and the 110,000 who have given their lives." McCrae's 1915 poem became the verbal centre of that act of remembrance.

The question is testing whether new citizens have noticed who Discover Canada credits with one of the country's most-recited poems. The guide is unambiguous: Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae — a Canadian medical officer — composed "In Flanders Fields" in 1915.

The wrong answer choices come from different chapters of Discover Canada. Sir Arthur Currie is named in connection with the last hundred days of the war (1918), not poetry. The other named officers and a 20th-century prime minister come from later parts of the guide and are not connected with the poem.