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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

Someone who wishes he was a military authority

A soldier
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 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 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
4 What is the poet's name?

Segfred Sassoon

Alfred Sassoon

Sigfried Sasson

Siegfried Sassoon
5 What sentiment is expressed in the poem?

Pacifist

Hunger for power

War mongering

Anti-war
6 How many stanzas are in the poem? How many lines?

1, 8

2, 8

2, 10

1, 10
7 What is the poem's meter?

Iambic tetrameter

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter

Free verse
8 Finish this quote: "And when the war is done _____"

and the young are dead

and youth stone dead

horrors fill my head

and I am asleep in bed
9 What qualities does the speaker imagine embodying in the first lines?

Guzzling and gulping

Fierce, bald, and short of breath

The ability to send soldiers up the lines

Scarlet
10 What collection was this poem published in?

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

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

A Soldier's Sentiment

A Soldier's Declaration

A Soldier's Letter

A Soldier's Statement
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?

The Inevitability of Death

Anti-War Sentiment

Celebration of Returning Soldiers

Satirizing Military Authority
14 Why are the majors referred to as scarlet?

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

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
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 majors drink wine

The majors also die

The soldiers return home

The soldiers are stone dead
17 What is the double meaning of "base"?

Organized and strong

Beginning and guitar

Foundational and despicable

Bottom and wonderful
18 Why are the soldier's referred to as "glum heroes"?

They are unwilling to fight

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

Unspecified, but presumably because they have meager rations

They were drafted
19 Why did Sassoon receive a Military Cross?

For refusing to cease fighting

He did not receive this award

For bringing back a wounded soldier while under heavy fire

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

August Stramm

Wilfred Owen

Robert Graves

Rupert Brooke
21 Which line disrupts the pattern of iambic pentameter?

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

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

And speed glum heroes up the line to death

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 creates a steady rhythm reminiscent of marching

It has no impact

It sounds like a horse, reminiscent of a cavalry
23 Which is not an example of alliteration?

Reading the Roll of Honour

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

my puffy petulant face,

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

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

repeating, sonic units

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

(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 have no respect for the lives of the soldiers

That the majors have been personally impacted by the war

That the majors are disillusioned by the death caused by war

That the majors also fought in battle

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