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1 Which of the following best describes the speaker?

Someone who hints at disliking military authority

Someone who actively dislikes military authority

A soldier

Someone who wishes he was a military authority
2 Who is being satirized in the poem?

Majors

War lovers

Generals

Soldiers
3 What is satirization?

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of personal issues

the use of bitterness to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of personal issues

the use of bitterness to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues
4 What is the poet's name?

Sigfried Sasson

Segfred Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

Alfred Sassoon
5 What sentiment is expressed in the poem?

War mongering

Pacifist

Anti-war

Hunger for power
6 How many stanzas are in the poem? How many lines?

1, 8

2, 8

1, 10

2, 10
7 What is the poem's meter?

Free verse

Iambic tetrameter

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter
8 Finish this quote: "And when the war is done _____"

and the young are dead

and I am asleep in bed

horrors fill my head

and youth stone dead
9 What qualities does the speaker imagine embodying in the first lines?

Guzzling and gulping

Scarlet

The ability to send soldiers up the lines

Fierce, bald, and short of breath
10 What collection was this poem published in?

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

Sequences

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
11 What document led to Sassoon's treatment for shell shock?

A Soldier's Declaration

A Soldier's Statement

A Soldier's Sentiment

A Soldier's Letter
12 Which war does this poem allude to?

Crimean War

World War One

Franco-Prussian War

World War Two
13 Which of the following is NOT a theme?

Anti-War Sentiment

Satirizing Military Authority

The Inevitability of Death

Celebration of Returning Soldiers
14 Why are the majors referred to as scarlet?

The color references their taste for red wine, compared to the thirst and starvation experienced by the soldiers

The color possibly references their uniforms, their overindulgence, and the blood on their hands

The color possibly references the soldiers' uniforms and the responsibility the majors have for human life

The color possibly references their overindulgence, their responsibilities, and the blood on their hands
15 Which quote best expresses the theme "The Inevitability of Death"?

I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

And speed glum heroes up the line to death.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
16 What is the final twist at the end of the poem?

The majors drink wine

The soldiers are stone dead

The soldiers return home

The majors also die
17 What is the double meaning of "base"?

Bottom and wonderful

Foundational and despicable

Organized and strong

Beginning and guitar
18 Why are the soldier's referred to as "glum heroes"?

Unspecified, but presumably because they have already experienced or heard about the horrors of war

They are unwilling to fight

They were drafted

Unspecified, but presumably because they have meager rations
19 Why did Sassoon receive a Military Cross?

For bringing back a wounded soldier while under heavy fire

He did not receive this award

For refusing to cease fighting

For sacrificing himself
20 Which fellow soldier-poet interceded on Sassoon's behalf when he sent his declaration?

Rupert Brooke

August Stramm

Robert Graves

Wilfred Owen
21 Which line disrupts the pattern of iambic pentameter?

And speed glum heroes up the line to death

Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

I'd say—"I used to know his father well;
22 What effect does iambic pentameter have in the poem?

It sounds like footsteps

It sounds like a horse, reminiscent of a cavalry

It creates a steady rhythm reminiscent of marching

It has no impact
23 Which is not an example of alliteration?

Reading the Roll of Honour

my puffy petulant face,

Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap.

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel
24 What is alliteration?

the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

repeating, sonic units

(of a word, syllable, or line) have or end with a sound that corresponds to another

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
25 What is the implication of the major's passing comments?

That the majors have no respect for the lives of the soldiers

That the majors have been personally impacted by the war

That the majors also fought in battle

That the majors are disillusioned by the death caused by war

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