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1 Which of the following best describes the speaker?

A soldier

Someone who actively dislikes military authority

Someone who hints at disliking military authority

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

War lovers

Majors

Soldiers

Generals
3 What is satirization?

the use of bitterness 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 contemporary politics and other topical issues

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

Siegfried Sassoon

Alfred Sassoon

Sigfried Sasson

Segfred Sassoon
5 What sentiment is expressed in the poem?

Hunger for power

Anti-war

War mongering

Pacifist
6 How many stanzas are in the poem? How many lines?

1, 10

2, 8

1, 8

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

Blank verse

Free verse

Iambic tetrameter

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

and I am asleep in bed

and the young are dead

horrors fill my head

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

Fierce, bald, and short of breath

Guzzling and gulping

Scarlet

The ability to send soldiers up the lines
10 What collection was this poem published in?

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Sequences

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Counter-Attack and Other Poems
11 What document led to Sassoon's treatment for shell shock?

A Soldier's Sentiment

A Soldier's Statement

A Soldier's Letter

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

Crimean War

World War Two

Franco-Prussian War

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

The Inevitability of Death

Celebration of Returning Soldiers

Satirizing Military Authority

Anti-War Sentiment
14 Why are the majors referred to as scarlet?

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

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

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

The color possibly references the soldiers' uniforms and the responsibility the majors have for human life
15 Which quote best expresses the theme "The Inevitability of Death"?

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,

And speed glum heroes up the line to death.

I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.
16 What is the final twist at the end of the poem?

The soldiers return home

The soldiers are stone dead

The majors drink wine

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

Beginning and guitar

Organized and strong

Bottom and wonderful

Foundational and despicable
18 Why are the soldier's referred to as "glum heroes"?

They were drafted

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

They are unwilling to fight

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

For sacrificing himself

For bringing back a wounded soldier while under heavy fire

He did not receive this award

For refusing to cease fighting
20 Which fellow soldier-poet interceded on Sassoon's behalf when he sent his declaration?

August Stramm

Robert Graves

Rupert Brooke

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."

I'd say—"I used to know his father well;

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel
22 What effect does iambic pentameter have in the poem?

It sounds like footsteps

It has no impact

It sounds like a horse, reminiscent of a cavalry

It creates a steady rhythm reminiscent of marching
23 Which is not an example of alliteration?

my puffy petulant face,

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

Reading the Roll of Honour

Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap.
24 What is alliteration?

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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
25 What is the implication of the major's passing comments?

That the majors are disillusioned by the death caused by war

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

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