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Base Details Quiz

1 Which of the following best describes the speaker?
A soldier

Someone who wishes he was a military authority

Someone who actively dislikes military authority

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

Generals

Soldiers

War lovers
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?
Segfred Sassoon

Alfred Sassoon

Sigfried Sasson

Siegfried 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, 10

1, 10

2, 8

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

Iambic pentameter

Blank verse

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

and youth stone dead

horrors fill my head

and the young are 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?
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Sequences

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

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

A Soldier's Statement

A Soldier's Declaration

A Soldier's Sentiment
12 Which war does this poem allude to?
Franco-Prussian War

World War Two

Crimean War

World War One
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 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

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 toddle safely home and die—in bed.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

And speed glum heroes up the line to death.
16 What is the final twist at the end of the poem?
The soldiers are stone dead

The majors also die

The majors drink wine

The soldiers return home
17 What is the double meaning of "base"?
Foundational and despicable

Organized and strong

Bottom and wonderful

Beginning and guitar
18 Why are the soldier's referred to as "glum heroes"?
Unspecified, but presumably because they have meager rations

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

They were drafted

They are unwilling to fight
19 Why did Sassoon receive a Military Cross?
He did not receive this award

For refusing to cease fighting

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?
Rupert Brooke

August Stramm

Wilfred Owen

Robert Graves
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 creates a steady rhythm reminiscent of marching

It sounds like a horse, reminiscent of a cavalry

It has no impact

It sounds like footsteps
23 Which is not an example of alliteration?
my puffy petulant face,

Reading the Roll of Honour

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.

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

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 have no respect for the lives of the soldiers

That the majors are disillusioned by the death caused by war

That the majors also fought in battle

That the majors have been personally impacted by the war

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