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Base Details Quiz

1 Which of the following best describes the speaker?
Someone who wishes he was a military authority

Someone who actively dislikes military authority

A soldier

Someone who hints at disliking military authority
2 Who is being satirized in the poem?
War lovers

Generals

Majors

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 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

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
4 What is the poet's name?
Alfred Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

Sigfried Sasson

Segfred Sassoon
5 What sentiment is expressed in the poem?
Anti-war

War mongering

Pacifist

Hunger for power
6 How many stanzas are in the poem? How many lines?
2, 8

1, 10

2, 10

1, 8
7 What is the poem's meter?
Blank verse

Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Iambic tetrameter
8 Finish this quote: "And when the war is done _____"
and I am asleep in bed

and the young are dead

and youth stone dead

horrors fill my head
9 What qualities does the speaker imagine embodying in the first lines?
Guzzling and gulping

The ability to send soldiers up the lines

Fierce, bald, and short of breath

Scarlet
10 What collection was this poem published in?
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

Sequences
11 What document led to Sassoon's treatment for shell shock?
A Soldier's Declaration

A Soldier's Letter

A Soldier's Statement

A Soldier's Sentiment
12 Which war does this poem allude to?
World War One

Crimean War

Franco-Prussian War

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

Satirizing Military Authority

Celebration of Returning Soldiers

Anti-War Sentiment
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 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 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"?
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.

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

The majors drink wine

The soldiers are stone dead

The soldiers return home
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"?
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 refusing to cease fighting

For bringing back a wounded soldier while under heavy fire

He did not receive this award
20 Which fellow soldier-poet interceded on Sassoon's behalf when he sent his declaration?
Rupert Brooke

August Stramm

Wilfred Owen

Robert Graves
21 Which line disrupts the pattern of iambic pentameter?
Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

And speed glum heroes up the line to death

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

Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."
22 What effect does iambic pentameter have in the poem?
It has no impact

It sounds like footsteps

It creates a steady rhythm reminiscent of marching

It sounds like a horse, reminiscent of a cavalry
23 Which is not an example of alliteration?
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap.

my puffy petulant face,

Reading the Roll of Honour

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.

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

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

repeating, sonic units
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 also fought in battle

That the majors have been personally impacted by the war

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