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1 Which of the following best describes the speaker?

Someone who actively dislikes military authority

Someone who wishes he was a military authority

Someone who hints at disliking 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 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
4 What is the poet's name?

Segfred Sassoon

Alfred Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

Sigfried Sasson
5 What sentiment is expressed in the poem?

War mongering

Anti-war

Pacifist

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

1, 10

2, 10

2, 8

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

Free verse

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

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

horrors fill my head

and youth stone dead

and I am asleep in bed

and the young are dead
9 What qualities does the speaker imagine embodying in the first lines?

Scarlet

Fierce, bald, and short of breath

Guzzling and gulping

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

Sequences

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
11 What document led to Sassoon's treatment for shell shock?

A Soldier's Statement

A Soldier's Letter

A Soldier's Declaration

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

World War One

World War Two

Crimean War

Franco-Prussian War
13 Which of the following is NOT a theme?

Anti-War Sentiment

Celebration of Returning Soldiers

Satirizing Military Authority

The Inevitability of Death
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 the soldiers' uniforms and the responsibility the majors have for human life

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
15 Which quote best expresses the theme "The Inevitability of Death"?

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

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

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,

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

The majors also die

The majors drink wine

The soldiers return home

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

Foundational and despicable

Beginning and guitar

Organized and strong

Bottom and wonderful
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

Unspecified, but presumably because they have meager rations

They are unwilling to fight
19 Why did Sassoon receive a Military Cross?

For bringing back a wounded soldier while under heavy fire

He did not receive this award

For refusing to cease fighting

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

August Stramm

Rupert Brooke

Robert Graves

Wilfred Owen
21 Which line disrupts the pattern of iambic pentameter?

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

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

And speed glum heroes up the line to death

Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."
22 What effect does iambic pentameter have in the poem?

It sounds like footsteps

It has no impact

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?

Reading the Roll of Honour

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

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

my puffy petulant face,
24 What is alliteration?

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

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

That the majors also fought in battle

That the majors are disillusioned by the death caused by war

That the majors have been personally impacted by the war

That the majors have no respect for the lives of the soldiers

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