Base Details Quizzes

Base Details Quiz

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

Someone who hints at disliking military authority

Someone who actively dislikes military authority

A soldier
2 Who is being satirized in the poem?
Generals

War lovers

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 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 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
4 What is the poet's name?
Siegfried Sassoon

Segfred Sassoon

Sigfried Sasson

Alfred Sassoon
5 What sentiment is expressed in the poem?
Pacifist

Anti-war

Hunger for power

War mongering
6 How many stanzas are in the poem? How many lines?
2, 10

1, 10

1, 8

2, 8
7 What is the poem's meter?
Blank verse

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Free verse
8 Finish this quote: "And when the war is done _____"
and the young are dead

and youth stone dead

and I am asleep in bed

horrors fill my head
9 What qualities does the speaker imagine embodying in the first lines?
Fierce, bald, and short of breath

Scarlet

Guzzling and gulping

The ability to send soldiers up the lines
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 Sentiment

A Soldier's Statement

A Soldier's Letter

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

Franco-Prussian War

World War Two

Crimean War
13 Which of the following is NOT a theme?
Satirizing Military Authority

The Inevitability of Death

Celebration of Returning Soldiers

Anti-War Sentiment
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 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 their overindulgence, their responsibilities, and the blood on their hands
15 Which quote best expresses the theme "The Inevitability of Death"?
And when the war is done and youth stone dead,

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

And speed glum heroes up the line to death.

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

The majors also die

The soldiers return home

The majors drink wine
17 What is the double meaning of "base"?
Organized and strong

Foundational and despicable

Beginning and guitar

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

They were drafted

Unspecified, but presumably because they have meager rations
19 Why did Sassoon receive a Military Cross?
He did not receive this award

For sacrificing himself

For refusing to cease fighting

For bringing back a wounded soldier while under heavy fire
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?
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."

And speed glum heroes up the line to death

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 has no impact

It sounds like footsteps

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,

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

Reading the Roll of Honour

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel
24 What is alliteration?
repeating, sonic units

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.

(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 been personally impacted by the war

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

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